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Australia’s peak body for volunteers has released a new definition of the word "volunteering'". 

The updated definition explains volunteers are those who "give their time willingly for the common good without financial gain".

Volunteering Victoria’s Tonye Segbedzi welcomes the change, saying it will help acknowledge new forms of volunteering.


Peak body redefines meaning of 'volunteer'

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With Mitchell Spivey, Tom Dillane, Thomas Major and Mark Kearney

RRR Midday News Thursday 10 September

Almost 20 percent of Australian teachers were born overseas. 

But schools pose both professional and cultural challenges for immigrant educators.

This is particularly the case for those from China, whose native education system is dramatically different to our own. 

Music: 'Freedom' by George Michael


Chinese-born teachers navigate Australian schools

Mark Kearney is a Melbourne-based journalism student. 

mnkearney@gmail.com