About

Friends of Public Housing Victoria

Fight Against Inequality Network Inc. (FAIN) campaigns to increase awareness and understanding of inequality in the Australian community and join with others to end it.

We are a diverse network of individuals and community groups* who share this purpose, based on the human rights values of dignity, mutual respect, trust, tolerance, compassion, care, equality, democracy, sustainability, peace and justice for all.

*Community groups can be organisations, networks and coalitions – including anti-poverty networks, social justice groups, unions, tax justice networks, churches, faith groups, anti-war and peace groups.

FAIN fights to end inequality.

We aim to increase awareness and understanding of inequality within the Australian community and join with others in exposing it.

FAIN campaigns to oppose the widening gap between the super rich and those with the least in Australia. This includes the links between homelessness, hunger, income poverty, wealth inequality and the super rich: corporations and individuals, as well as the links between tax avoidance and tax evasion, military spending and the erosion of essential public services such as healthcare, education, income support; utilities such as energy and water; and infrastructure such as public housing, roads and telecommunications.

We’re campaigning in the runup to the 2025 federal election urging federal parliamentarians and those seeking (re)election to commit to act on a national recommendations policy statement to end inequality and calls on the Victoria State Government to endorse the recommendations and that both governments, through policies and programs, work towards ending inequality.

FAIN fights against federal and Victoria State Government inaction on policies that hurt and harm the poorest in Australia’s population and continue to entrench inequality.

We encourage and support existing community groups’ collective action to develop local FAIN campaigns in greater metropolitan Melbourne, regional areas, towns and cities in Victoria.

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FAIN was established on 5 April 2024 and incorporated on 9 April 2024. We follow the model rules for running an incorporated association, including annual general meetings.

FAIN is run as an independent volunteer network, commencing in Victoria and spreading nationally, and is non-party political.

We work through a Victoria based coordinating committee with two co-chairs, a secretary, a treasurer, a coordinator and up to five other members. All committee members are volunteers.
FAIN administers its finances based on the principles of honesty, integrity, accountability and transparency.

Membership is free and our work is supported by donations.