Mission Australia

1. Feds should play role in urban planning to improve housing affordability
(News/Media Releases Archive)

The Rudd Government should play a more interventionist role in the urban planning of our major cities to improve access to affordable housing according to one of the country’s leading providers of housing ...

2. Mission Australia Funding
(Pathways/About Us)

... places around major and regional cities. Once a person signs up with a face-to-face fundraiser to support Mission Australia, they will receive a phone call within a few days to confirm their ongoing donation ...

3. Strategic Partnerships
(Partnerships/Corporate Partnerships)

... Rick Millen, PricewaterhouseCoopers Macquarie Macquarie has been in partnership with Mission Australia for more than seven years supporting the organisation’s key social programs, in many capacities. ...

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

... times than by simply driving around the streets.” The Lord Mayor said the initiative will support some of the cities’ most vulnerable people and protect the environment. “By setting up a bike service, ...

5. Affordable housing crisis a big issue for regional areas like Port Pirie, Port Augusta and Whyalla.
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Leading community services group Mission Australia says concerns about homelessness and housing affordability are not confined to cities, but are urgent issues also in booming rural and regional areas ...

6. More homeless services needed in Tasmania
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... new residential developments within Hobart and other major cities should have affordable rental housing and home ownership as a central part of their mix. “A National Housing Strategy would also need ...

7. Don’t forget homeless in housing affordability debate
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... more affordable housing in the heart of our capital cities, combating the trend of low-income people living on the suburban fringe and travelling hours to work; increase the stock of public housing (there ...

8. UN report on Australian housing crisis rings true
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... cities, combating the trend of low-income people living on the suburban fringe and travelling hours to work; increase the stock of public housing (there are 30,000 less public houses now than 1996); ...

9. Youth Survey uncovers the differences between young Sydney siders and their rural cousins
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... between 11-19) – participated in the 2005 survey, which aims to identify and clarify key and emerging issues for Australian youth. 47% of respondents were from outside the capital cities. In NSW and ...

10. Youth Survey uncovers the differences between young Queenslanders living in Brisbane and rural areas
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of respondents between 11-19) – participated in the 2005 survey. Nationally, 47% of those surveyed lived outside the capital cities. In Queensland, around 1,500 young people participated in the survey. ...

11. Young people in rural South Australia more concerned about alcohol, stress and jobs
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... accounts for far more deaths than among young people in cities,” said Mission Australia’s State Manager Mark Herselman. “While the death rate of 15-24 year olds attributed to alcohol has been trending ...

12. Youth Survey uncovers the differences between young West Australians living in Perth and rural areas
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of respondents between 11-19) participated in the 2005 survey, which aims to identify and clarify key and emerging issues for Australian youth. 47% of respondents were from outside the capital cities. ...

13. Youth Survey uncovers the differences between young Tasmanians living in Hobart and rural areas
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... 2005 survey, which aims to identify and clarify key and emerging issues for Australian youth. 47 per cent of respondents were from outside the capital cities. In Tasmania, around 800 young people participated ...