Ross House Association

06/08/2026

🍃Get your hands dirty and join Ross House tenant TreeProject at their upcoming planting weekend at Tarrawarra in the Yarra Valley 🌳

You'll be planting indigenous seedlings to help create habitat for local wildlife, strengthen biodiversity and restore the landscape, one seedling at a time.

31/07/2026

Happening tomorrow! Be sure to head to the Deafblind Victoria Sausage Sizzle at Bunnings Chadstone.
Check out the DBV page for the details 👏🌭😋

DBV is excited to announce our very first Bunnings sausage sizzle!
Come along, enjoy a sausage, and say hello. Bring your family, friends, and even your pets. Everyone is welcome!
Date: Saturday 1 August
Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Bunnings Chadstone, 675–685 Warrigal Road, Chadstone
Money raised will go towards DBV’s regional support and outreach.
Can’t make it on the day? You can still support DBV by making a donation using the QR code on the flyer.
Watch Kathy Wise’s Auslan announcement below for all the details. We hope to see you there!
https://youtu.be/_Kubf7VoDls

22/07/2026

It's a big one this year for the Choir of Hard Knocks 🎼🎤🫶
Tickets are on sale now! Head to the page for the ticket link and details.

16/07/2026

Free 📚!! 👀 Check out the link!

10/07/2026

🗣️🗞️ Check out our latest “In the House” Newsletter which features wonderful news from our Membership 🏠 🫶
Click the below link to view it now:
https://rosshouse.org.au/news-and-events/newsletter-july-2026/



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07/07/2026

The NAIDOC Week 2026 theme is "50 Years of Deadly"

Running from July 5 to 12, this year's theme celebrates five decades of NAIDOC Week, honouring the activists, Elders, and communities who have championed First Nations voices, protest, and cultural survival.

Get involved!
Check out the link for NAIDOC week events happening in Melbourne 👉 https://www.naidoc.org.au/local-events/local-naidoc-week-events?title=&postcode=3000&state=24



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02/07/2026

July is Disability Pride month 🎉

While it is not widely celebrated here in Australia (though it grows each year 💪) it is certainly significant in what it represents for people living with disabilities. More than 4 million Australians have a disability, which is almost 20 per cent of our population.

This event was created to celebrate the passing of the ‘Americans with Disabilities Act’ in July 1990 in the USA. It made discrimination against people with a disability illegal in the USA.

The Disability Pride Flag is a powerful symbol of diversity, resilience and unity in our community.

Each colour represents a different aspect of disability:

❤️ Red – Physical disabilities
💛 Yellow – Intellectual & developmental disabilities
🤍 White – Non-visible & undiagnosed disabilities
💙 Blue – Psychological disabilities & mental health
💚 Green – Sensory disabilities
🩶 Mourning and Remembrance

The Disability Pride Flag was created by Ann Magill (redesigned in 2021 for accessibility).

For more information on Disability Pride month, please go to https://cerebralpalsy.org.au/news-stories/the-background-of-disability-pride-month-why-what-when/



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01/07/2026

👏👏👏 Well done on a great Deafblindness week Deafblind Victoria!!

30/06/2026

Last day! Please read and share Ross House tenant RISE: Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees post about the EOFY appeal today!

Less than 24 hours to go! Support our EOFY appeal today!

Every donation helps us run our campaigns, projects, and our drop-in centre : supporting work led by eX-detainees, for eX-detainees.

All donations are tax deductible. https://www.givenow.com.au/rise-ex-detainees-end-of-the-year-appeal-2026

Nothing about us without us.
RISE eX-detainees

25/06/2026

Check out the latest Ross House e-bulletin at
https://tinyurl.com/59vcm5b8 📰 🗞️ 📖 📣

If you would like to receive the e-bulletin to your emails weekly, you can subscribe by heading to www.rosshouse.org.au and scrolling to the bottom of the webpage.

If you have something to share, please send it through to [email protected] each week (by Wednesday) and we will promote it for you.



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