Mission Australia

1. The scale, composition and some solutions to the housing needs of Indigenous Australians
(Download:Social Policy Seminars)

Nicholas Biddle, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU. ...

2. Dubbo Leadership and Cultural Development Program
(Download:Fact Sheets)

Dubbo Leadership and Cultural Development Program assists young Aboriginal students to stay in school, gain leadership skills and culture awareness. ...

3. Addressing Indigenous Disadvantage - Ruth McCausland
(Download:Social Policy Seminars)

Nicholas Biddle and Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) and Ruth McCausland, Jumbunna’s Research Unit.  ...

4. Addressing Indigenous Disadvantage - Nicholas Biddle
(Download:Social Policy Seminars)

Nicholas Biddle and Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) and Ruth McCausland, Jumbunna’s Research Unit.  ...

5. NSW/ACT Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

...  Themes such as the: Landscape, Exploration, Suburbia and Aboriginal Presence will be explored and their symbols interrogated in order to define if literature and art can provide a source of spiritual ...

6. NT Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... to volunteering@missionaustralia.com.au for consideration. Bike Fixim Program - Bike Repairs Mission Australia is a non profit organisation that runs youth services on four remote Aboriginal communities ...

7. Useful Links
(Housing/NSW)

...  • Greater Sydney Aboriginal Tenants Service (GSATS), (Phone) 02 9282 6727 or 9282 6794, (Fax) 02 0282 6783 • Tenants Union of NSW, (Website) www.tenants.org.au • NSW Office of Fair Trading, ...

8. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)

... a degree in Criminology from Griffith University, and at 21 became the youngest elected regional councillor in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). In 2006 Tania was announced ...

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

... – without resorting to the withdrawal of income support. They include: Breakfast and lunch programs that attract children from dysfunctional families to school. Programs that bring the Aboriginal ...

10. Community Services in NSW
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... and Cultural Development Program assists young Aboriginal students to stay in school, gain leadership skills and culture awareness. The program supports Aboriginal students by providing: Weekly after ...

11. Community Services in Victoria
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... through a successful youth Urban Renewal Employment Enterprise Program Youth Futures – Dandenong and Frankston Aboriginal Driver Education Program (ADEP) Pathways to strong families and healthy, ...

12. Community Services in the Northern Territory
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

...  Medical Transport Service Mission Australia’s Medical Transport Service provides a transport and driver liaison service. The service is available to eligible remote Aboriginal clients in the Top End ...

13. Pathways through a successful youth
(Community Services/Community Services)

... western NSW helps young Aboriginal students gain leadership skills and culture awareness, and assists them to stay in school. The Program supports Aboriginal students by providing: Weekly after school ...

14. Indigenous problem gamblers need greater support
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Mission Australia has welcomed a report by the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW which calls for greater efforts to help engage Indigenous communities on the issue of problem gambling. ...

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

In the nineteenth century, Australia consisted of developing colonial settlements living among hundreds of Aboriginal tribes. These colonial settlements were sites of tremendous deprivation. Identifying ...

16. Work for dole team graduates after giving new life to Kaurna Plains pre-school
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... from within the Peachey Belt area that will be closing to make way for the new Superschools became involved. Kaurna Plains School, the Aboriginal Elders Centre, Northern Carers Network and the Movers and ...

17. Learning the ropes on trip of a lifetime
(News/Media Releases Archive)

A crew of 18 young South Australians – including nine Aboriginal teenagers - will turn history on its head as they sail the high seas on a Tall Ship into one of Australia’s most famous ports. Leaving ...

18. Talented young Indigenous people blaze new trail under IYMP
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... she said. With fewer than 100 qualified Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors operating in Australia, Amanda Richards wants to train as a paediatrician and work in an Indigenous community once ...

19. The main concerns of young Australians: National Survey
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... people value?’, ‘Where do you turn for advice/support?’ and ‘What people/organisations do you most admire?’. Of around 800 respondents identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders, 150 respondents ...