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Photo exhibition tells stories of homelessness in Melbourne
A photographic exhibition showcasing the creative work and inspirational stories of nine individuals who have experienced homelessness starts on Sunday 5 August, 2007.
No Forwarding Address: Homelessness Through Our Eyes will be on display in the Atrium at Federation Square from 5 – 12 August 2007 as part of National Homelessness Week.
The unique exhibition gives people who have experienced homelessness the opportunity to tell their story through the camera lens.
The free exhibition seeks to promote greater understanding of the many causes of homelessness, including lack of affordable housing, loss of employment, mental health issues and poverty. The stories and images of the artists also reveal tremendous resilience, courage and hope.
In partnership with the Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH), an independent not-forprofit legal referral service, and its Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic (HPLC), the project has been developed by a group of emerging young business leaders, as part of the Committee for Melbourne’s Future Focus Group program.
The exhibition will be launched on Monday 6 August by Tim Costello of World Vision, accompanied by the Choir of Hard Knocks.
The Committee for Melbourne represents the highest levels of 170 organisations from the business sector as well as science, academia, community and government.
Our current agenda reflects our three strategic objectives:
Encouraging a competitive and innovative business culture Ensuring Melbourne's global relevance Enhancing Melbourne's liveability
The Committee champions ideas to make Melbourne successful.
Over the past 20 years, we were instrumental in the creation of Melbourne Docklands, Citylink and the privatisation of Melbourne Airport. We also succeeded in having Melbourne to take a pioneering role as the first city in the world to engage the United Nations Global Compact, and we are the International Secretariat for the UN Global Compact Cities Programme.
More recently, our Transport Taskforce of more than 30 organisations consistently led debate on innovative funding choices and the city’s big, difficult transport issues. One measurement of its success was the number of our recommendations adopted by Government and the fact that a number of transport operators have used the outputs of the taskforce for their own strategic plans. The improvements traversed capacity, performance, signalling and control of the transport system, netting benefits for anyone going anywhere. Another achievement looks like being the impact of our submission to the Eddington ‘East-West Link Needs Assessment’ Inquiry. In that we addressed current transport volumes and growth in our city over the next 30 years.
Our current initiatives include our Climate Change Taskforce which will embark on delivering an action plan for Melbourne in response to the main local impacts of climate change. And our Higher Education Taskforce is looking at a number of important issues facing an industry of significant economic importance to Victoria.
And, for the twelfth year running, our development program for Melbourne’s future leaders, the Future Focus Group is embodying our 'ideas to outcomes' ethos with participants initiating and implementing, usually within two years, their own projects to make a tangible, positive difference to the city. |


