Mission Australia

1. Our Response to the Commonwealth Gov Discussion Paper - Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity
(Document Downloads)

Mission Australia strongly supports the Commonwealth Government’s major focus on the wellbeing of aboriginal Australians. To impact upon aboriginal economic participation positively and sustainably, Mission ...

2. Our Submission on Remote and Regional Communities
(Document Downloads)

Addressing the significant and entrenched nature of disadvantage within some regional and remote aboriginal communities requires a multi-layered, long term, community development approach. Such an approach ...

3. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Information
(Community Services/Community Services)

... in metro, regional and remote areas, we work to address training, employment, education, child and families’ needs. We work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in over 50 communities – from ...

4. Alice Springs Integrated Youth Services
(Community Services/Community Services)

Alice Springs Integrated Youth Services provides outreach youth programs to four remote Northern Territory communities: Finke, Imanpa, Mutitjulu and Docker River. ...

5. Volunteering is a life-changing experience
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... young people in community projects. When she volunteered with YCA, she was sent to the remote Territory settlement of Finke, working with Mission Australia’s youth development program. “It was an ...

6. Annual Review
(Pathways/About Us)

... to help prevent drug abuse and anti-social behaviour among young aboriginal people living in remote communities We opened Roma House, a new accommodation service aimed at helping long-term homeless people ...

7. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)

... do our part in offering genuine compassion, understanding and a hand up."   TANIA MAJOR Tania Major is a Kokoberra woman from the remote community of Kowanyama in Cape York Queensland. She holds ...

8. Community Services in South Australia
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... Program (IYMP) IYMP provides support, practical assistance and case management to young people from regional, rural and remote aboriginal communities. Pathways towards strong families and healthy, ...

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

... and Kaltukatjara (Docker River). We also provide visiting services to many other Top End and Katherine remote communities. Here are some of the services we provide in the Northern Territory Pathways ...

10. Mission Australia welcomes groundbreaking youth homelessness report
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... remote Northern Territory community. “Our response as a community must recognise this diversity and be flexible enough to deal with each individual problem or else we’ll not be effective. “The NYC youth ...

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

A group of talented young Indigenous people from remote and regional Australia is defying stereotypes under an innovative programme now being run in South Australia. The Indigenous Youth Mobility Programme ...

12. Mission Australia to combat unemployment in Meekatharra
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Mission Australia recently opened a remote servicing area in Meekatharra, which offers a variety of job network services for registered job seekers from Mt Magnet to Wiluna. As a former Mission Australia ...

13. New program to benefit young aboriginal people from remote South Australian communities
(News/Media Releases Archive)

An innovative Australian Government program will help up to 80 young aboriginal people from remote South Australian communities to gain valuable training and career opportunities. Mission Australia, ...