Mission Australia

1. The changing taste of welfare services - The evolution of Cafe One
(Document Downloads)

This publication focuses on the role the provision of food to disadvantaged people has played in Mission Australia’s history in Queensland - a journey that began with the Brisbane City Mission and continues ...

2. Experiencing Poverty
(Document Downloads)

... benefits of Australia’s growing economic prosperity. The study, funded by the Australian Research Council, was conducted by a consortium of leading social researchers and welfare agency practitioners at ...

3. Left out and missing out: Voices from the margins
(Document Downloads)

Around one in seven Australians who turn to welfare organisations for help lack a substantial meal at least once a day accoridng to new research released in Anti-Poverty Week (14-20 October)  ...

4. Concern at growing numbers of homeless people turned away
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... shelters are turned away each day.  The data, released this morning by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, show that of people needing new and immediate accommodation every day in 2008-09, ...

5. Integrated Youth Services (NT)
(Community Services/Community Services)

... take responsibility for their own care and development and move away from welfare dependency Counteract negative influences - including those related to substance abuse - by engaging young people in ...

6. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander information
(Community Services/Community Services)

... Study finds Aboriginal welfare quarantining in NT is failing ABC Radio AM program - 17 May 2010 Progress with school development in Tiwi Islands Australian Government - 11 May 2010 Media Release: ...

7. High & Complex Needs in Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (NSW)
(Community Services/Community Services)

...  Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA), the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the NSW Department of Community Services (DOCS). Homelessness NSW, the Women’s ...

8. Broncos lend a hand at Mission Australia's Cafe One on Wickham
(Daily News/Blog)

... Broncos TV. The Broncos will be working with other charity partners in coming months, with another visit to Cafe One due early May. Further Reading...  The changing taste of welfare ...

9. Bringing together business, government and not-for-profits is a GoodStart
(Daily News/Blog)

Mission Australia CEO - Toby Hall There’s an old saying that if the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. The welfare sector’s traditional approach to large scale social ...

10. Drugs, suicide and body image - the issues of most concern to young Australians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

...  “Over the last few years we’ve seen governments, welfare groups and youth agencies tackle the issue of body image in a much more concerted fashion and from this year’s survey results we think it’s beginning ...

11. PM for a day? What would you do to tackle poverty?
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... and who need our help,” said Mr Hall. “From our own research we know that around one in seven people who turn to welfare organisations lack a substantial meal at least once a day – that’s a shocking situation ...

12. The Mission Australia Story
(Pathways/About Us)

... of those living in poverty. The City Missions operated in a time before government welfare or unemployment benefits existed and they were called upon to save many families from starvation. During the ...

13. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)

... (1980). She also had a guest appearance on Home and Away. Lorrae was invited to tour Vietnam, to entertain the troops and after 5 tours, was awarded an M.B.E. for Welfare of Australian Troops serving ...

14. Internship Success - Alexis Bradshaw
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Graduate and Work Experience)

... did besides being a welfare agency. After a short while I realised that Mission Australia was a massive organisation that had its fingers in most areas of society’s pie. I commenced my field education ...

15. Mission Australia launches Reconciliation Action Plan
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Mission Australia has become the first major Australian welfare organisation to develop a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) – a strategy for how it intends to contribute to reducing the gap in living standards ...

16. Mission Australia to build $16M Aged Homeless Service as number of elderly homeless climbs
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... the release today of an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, Counting the Homeless, showing that the number of homeless people aged 55 and over increased by more than 30 percent nationally ...

17. Missionbeat Bikes hit the road
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... that help people rebuild their lives, promote animal welfare and support community environmental and sustainability initiatives. Cr Moore said the new Missionbeat service is an important part of City ...

18. Concern at growing numbers of homeless people turned away
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... homeless shelters are turned away each day. The data, released this morning by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, show that each day in 2007-08 about 385 people who requested immediate accommodation ...

19. Solid start for Community Response Task Force
(News/Media Releases Archive)

The first meeting of the Federal Government’s Community Response Task Force has provided the country’s leading welfare organisations with a positive opportunity to present the issues facing vulnerable ...

20. Mission Australia: tragedy if housing element of stimulus package not passed
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... a tragedy for low-income Australians to miss out. After attending a briefing between the Prime Minister, Ministers and leading welfare groups in Canberra today, Mission Australia’s CEO, Toby Hall, said ...

21. The welfare experiment - an opinion piece from Mission Australia's CEO, Toby Hall
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... for their children’s welfare and education. Kids must go to school and be safe in the home. But looking behind these measures, there are bigger questions at stake. Is using a fairly large and blunt policy ...

22. From little things, big things grow - a story from Mission Australia’s Special Needs Dental Service (SNDS)
(News/Media Releases Archive)

...  Following rehab, Brian moved into supported post-rehabilitation accommodation, and he resided there for a number of years. He began volunteering at welfare services in his local area and soon found ...

23. Paid maternity leave battle reignited
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... savings for the whole community, in terms of spending on health, welfare and justice systems. Introducing paid maternity leave in Australia would be a great first step, it's now up to the Rudd Government ...

24. Tackling truancy - is cutting welfare payments an effective method?
(News/Media Releases Archive)

The debate surrounding the linking of welfare payments to school attendance has brought out strong views on both sides – not surprising for issues so fundamental to our community’s well-being. Parents ...

25. Making university education accessible to disadvantaged Australians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... is offered free of charge to all students. Eight out of 16 students successfully completed a subject in the first semester. Referrals for the course came from four external welfare centres as well ...