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Nicholas Biddle, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU.
Addressing the significant and entrenched nature of disadvantage within some regional and remote Indigenous communities requires a multi-layered, long term, community development approach. Such an approach ...
Mission Australia strongly supports the Commonwealth Government’s major focus on the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. To impact upon Indigenous economic participation positively and sustainably, Mission ...
4. NYS 2008 Indigenous Summary
(Download:Youth Surveys)
Indigenous summary from the National Survey of Young Australians 2008 ...
5. Mission Australia Centre
(Download:Fact Sheets)
... support options with a particular focus on indigenous homelessness. This groundbreaking centre is the first of its kind in Australia and provides a bridge to greater social and economic participation. ...
National and indigenous summaries from the National Survey of Young Australians 2007  ...
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Mission Australia NEIS
(Employment Services/Providers)
...  WA Phone: 1300 00 6347 1 Stream 1 & 2, this must be in a skills shortage area (with the exception of indigenous applicants).  2 Some conditions apply.  Please refer to the 13 and 26 week outcome table. ...
... in detention on any day and numbers are at a four-year high,” said Ms Hampshire. “While only 5% of Australia’s 10-17 year olds are Indigenous they make up 40% of all young people in the nation’s juvenile ...
11. NT Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)
... Solutions - Darwin Grass Roots Solutions is a mobile service that visits Darwin and Palmerston indigenous town and 'Long Grass' camps on a daily basis.  Outreach workers engage with families and provide ...
... Families Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs. Media contact: Patrick Flynn (02) 9641 5031 or 0407 411 256  ...
... Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Member for Jagajaga; Jenny Mikakos MP, Member for Northern Metropolitan Region; Craig Langdon MP, Member for Ivanhoe; and Cr ...
14. Taree families Invited to free Expo
(News/Media Releases Archive)
... Services & Indigenous Affairs. Event: Mission Australia Communities for Children Free Family Expo When:  Sunday, 15 March from 10am to 2pm - Official Opening by Mayor Paul Hogan at 10am Where:  Taree ...
15. AMP Foundation
(Partnerships/Major Corporate and Community Partners)
... year partnership with Mission Australia in 2008 to support programs focused on Indigenous youth. The partnership includes support to enhance and expand the successful Dubbo Leadership and Cultural Development ...
... to 1000 families in 2008-2009. Another change is that the income quarantining measures that were part of the Northern Territory intervention were targeted at Indigenous families – a point of much contention ...
17. Drugs a growing concern for young Australians
(News/Media Releases Archive)
... identified as Indigenous (5.7 per cent); 6,800 spoke a language other than English at home (14.8 per cent); and 375 indicated they were either homeless or living in insecure housing. Ms Hampshire said ...
18. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)
... Awards. Since 2002 Tania has publicly addressed many national and international forums, speaking on Indigenous and Youth affairs as these relate to remote communities, particularly those in Cape York. ...
... people – aged 24 or under – who were homeless was 44,577 – down from 46,114 in 2001, a decrease of 3.3 per cent. - 9.9 per cent, or 10,362 homeless people, are Indigenous – up from 8491 in 2001, an increase ...
... (Behrendt is professor of law and indigenous studies at Sydney's University of Technology) in which she outlined some of the successful initiatives that have been used to combat truancy in Indigenous communities ...
... emergency departments; it is also employing the services of a psychologist, an occupational therapist, a drug and alcohol counsellor, an Indigenous outreach worker, along with dentists, barbers, podiatrists ...
... if they are 65 or over. However, due to the health consequences and premature aging associated with homelessness, homeless people aged 50+ (45+ for Indigenous people) are considered elderly. “Statistics ...
... through all this is that we can’t treat homeless youth as one homogenous group. The needs of a homeless young person in Kings Cross are going to be different to a young homeless Indigenous person in a ...
... across the country. Through these programs many students are finding pathways to new careers. In many remote and regional sites we are working with indigenous and disadvantaged communities, in partnership ...
25. Johnson & Johnson
(Partnerships/Major Corporate and Community Partners)
... in several states. Pathways to Prevention provides support and education for children and their families and also has a focus on supporting the indigenous community in several areas, which is an important ...
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