The beautiful weather in Goulburn on Monday made it a perfect day for visitors to stop for free sausage sizzles at Belmore Park for 'Poverty is no Picnic in the Park' event.
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Mission Australia banded together with other local community service providers to host the event during anti-poverty week.
The community groups who participated in the event included Salvation Army, Centrelink, Anglicare, Mission Australia, Services NSW, Uniting, Wesley Centre and Rural Aid.
Member for Goulburn Wendy Tuckerman was the guest speaker for the occasion and said that the event was organised for a great cause.
"As a government, we will continue to help and support people who need these services," Mrs Tuckerman said.
Mission Australia and New South Wales Council of Social Service co-chaired anti-poverty week.
"Part of anti-poverty week is to raise awareness about poverty that it exists and hurts us all," she said.
In NSW, 13 per cent of people live under the poverty line and this number rising for children and those in rural communities.
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"We are advocating to raise the rate for income support. The rate of Newstart remains low at less than $40 per day.
"We need to raise the rates so people can have a decent standard of living and those who are unemployed can have the resources that they need to get the training, support, education to be able to look forward to work."
Drought support worker Butch Young said the event helped to raise awareness about the drought.
"The farmers desperately need our focus specially with summers and the bushfire season approaching," Mr Young said.
"There are lots of farmers in crisis at the moment and as a community, I think we need to be aware of it," he said.
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