Power to Care

20/02/2026

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15/02/2026

🎙️ Today we launch Power to Care Radio.

After months of conversations, courage and community — it’s here.

Power to Care Radio is a space for honest, thoughtful and sometimes challenging conversations about what it really means to care in Australia.

Unpaid carers make up 1 in 8 Australians. They hold together our health, disability, mental health and aged care systems. They save the country billions every year. And yet, too often, they remain invisible until crisis.

This radio program exists to change that.

Power to Care Radio is not about charity narratives or “inspiration”.
It’s about leadership.
It’s about systems.
It’s about partnership.
It’s about building a culture where caring is visible, valued and supported.

Through lived experience, expert insight and community voices, we will explore what needs to shift — and what’s possible when carers are recognised as equal partners in care.

Today is just the beginning.

🎧 Tune in. Share widely. Be part of the conversation.

Because caring changes lives — and it’s time the system caught up.



To listen go to www.mainfm.net/listenlive

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03/02/2026

It’s World Cancer Day and if you’ve ever frozen mid-sentence wondering
“What do I even say?” you’re not alone, friend.

Here at Gather My Crew we know finding the right words can be tricky, but we've got your back.

We've created this quick-reference checklist of 'things to say instead' when someone you care about has cancer.

🫶 Gather My Crew is an Australian charity. To help us reach more people with our free app, education and guidance resources you can:

👉 Share this post (on your stories, on your wall, with a friend, in a group chat)

Thank you, we really appreciate your support 💛

Cancer Australia
Cancer Council Australia
Cancer Support Community
Breast Cancer Network Australia
Carers Australia

03/02/2026

CW: violence, murder of disabled children, su***de

It’s been a pretty bleak few days, reading thousands of hurtful comments about the murder-su***de involving two disabled children.

Comments like: “don’t judge parents of disabled kids”, “take a walk in their shoes”, or “I understand”, “I don’t condone murder, but…”, “parents [were] doing their absolute best. They saw no other options”, “I feel for any family coping with disability….Cannot be easy to live with day in and day out”, “it was an act of love”. And so on.

There’s no denying that parenting a disabled child is hard and that more support is needed - urgently. The system failed the Clune boys, and is failing so many disabled children and adults and their families.

But these comments are saying the quiet part out loud. This is really what people think of disabled people. People like me. And it’s horrifying to see so many people who are paid or unpaid carers of disabled children and adults saying these things.

No one would ever say these things about murders of non disabled people.

In no other instance of murder is the perpetrator excused. Only when it comes to disabled people killed by people who were supposed to care for them.

Disability really is the last taboo and hatred - it seems our community is the acceptable community to harm.

Where are the anti-violence campaigners?
And where are our non disabled allies? The ones who speak up about other diversity issues?
And where are the newly diagnosed neurodivergent high profile white women?
Crickets.

The silence from allies is just loud as the people who say they can understand why disabled people are killed.

Love to the disability community right now. And love and condolences to Leon and Otis Clune, who should still be alive and able to access support, dignity and safety.

Lifeline: 131114
Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800

Image: a white speech bubble on a black background. Inside the speech bubble there’s black text that reads: “the comments are saying the quiet part out loud.”

27/01/2026

We love social prescription! If our government invested in social prescription, the return on investment would be well worth it!!

We recently came across a story about a woman navigating life after losing her partner of 60 years.
She was struggling so she went to see her GP who prescribed her something very specific.

Within weeks, this woman found her way back to life.
She joined her local gardening group, had people round for coffee and started helping her neighbour out with some dog sitting.

Slowly, those connections became a reason to get up each day.
People to see. Places to go. A sense of community.

Her GP didn’t prescribe her medication. She prescribed connection.

Social Prescribing is when health professionals recognise that wellbeing isn’t just physical. That the solution to loneliness, grief and isolation is company, purpose and belonging.

That’s where Gather My Crew comes in.
Our tools help turn that Social Prescribing into real-life crews of friends, family and neighbours doing the things that actually keep someone going:

🍲 dropping off groceries and staying for a chat
🚗 giving lifts to appointments or activities
🌱 helping with the gardening
🐕 walking the dog together
💬 checking in regularly

Our free app coordinates everything, so social prescribing doesn’t stay as a note in a file.
It shows up at the door.

If you work in health or community care and want your social prescribing to translate into real, practical support at home, get in touch today.
We’re a registered Australian charity and we have lots of resources to share!

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