Mission Australia

1. Young people and the criminal justice system: New insights and promising responses
(Download:Social Policy Reports)

This publication features new research undertaken by Jioji Ravulo from MA’s youth services in western Sydney. It confirms that much better outcomes are achieved through holistic community based services ...

2. 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. ...

3. Our Response to Commonwealth Gov. Green Paper - Which way home?
(Download:Policy Submissions)

... work across all levels of Government and promote local responses under a national strategy. Our approach is informed by practise wisdom and backed up by extensive national and international research. ...

4. Crime and Social Isolation: Beyond Moral Panics and Bad Parents
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Dr Murray Lee is senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Western Sydney in the School of Applied Social and Human Sciences. Dr Murray has also been a research coordinator on a large three-year ...

5. Social Policy and Early Intervention - Jenny Chaves
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This seminar is presented by Professor Ilan Katz, Acting Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, and Jenny Chaves, Services Manager for Mission Australia’s Communities for Children Initiative in ...

6. Social Policy and Early Intervention - Ilan Katz
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This seminar is presented by Professor Ilan Katz, Acting Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, and Jenny Chaves, Services Manager for Mission Australia’s Communities for Children Initiative in ...

7. Caring in the 21st Century: Costs, Opportunities and Custody
(Download:Social Policy Seminars)

Bettina Cass (Social Policy Research Centre) and Gabrielle Upton (Deputy Chair of the Taskforce on Care Costs) Caring in the 21st century is one of the most significant contemporary challenges facing ...

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

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

10. Left out and missing out: Disability and disadvantage.
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Recent research by the Social Policy Research Centre, Anglicare, Mission Australia and others has found that where there is someone in a household with a disability, poverty rates are higher and hardship ...

11. Towards new indicators of Disadvantage: Deprivation and social exclusion in Australia
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Towards new indicators of disadvantage is the major report of a project which has aimed to understand disadvantage based on the actual living standards and experiences of people in poverty. The research ...

12. Left out and missing out: Voices from the margins
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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)  ...

13. Youth Employment Stategy (YES)
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... and international research and analysis.  ...

14. The Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project
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Bulletin No.1 - Identifying the Essentials of Life By Peter Saunders. This project is a collaboration between researchers at the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) and analysts from the Australian ...

15. Experiencing Poverty: The Voices of Low-Income Australians
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Towards New Indicators of Disadvantage Project Stage I: Focus Group Outcomes The research reported in this publication forms the first stage of a project designed to develop new indicators of disadvantage ...

16. Experiencing Poverty
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The first results of research that aims to measure poverty in a new way were released today (Monday 6 March). The research highlights the problems facing low-income Australians who have missed out on the ...

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

... electrical goods 5. Volunteers to work in retail 6. Upholsters to assist with cleaning/repairing office furniture 7. Sewers/dressmakers/knitters 8. Researchers 9. Carpenters 10.  ...

18. VIC Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... university education, an opportunity they would otherwise not be able to take up. Catalyst reintroduces clients to learning, and in the process teaches new skills (e.g. IT, research skills) and promotes ...

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

... or extended family. Those people don’t get counted in this research. “Knowing this data collection also took place before the current economic crisis is another reality check. Anecdotally we’re starting ...

20. Strategic Partnerships
(Partnerships/Corporate Partnerships)

... programs like the Research and Policy Unit. “This Unit guides Mission Australia’s service delivery and supports their work in advocating to governments and influencing policy. Macquarie’s funding also ...

21. Bringing together the family services in Mt Druitt
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... services are on offer in Mt Druitt, the criteria for becoming involved and who to contact for more information. Internationally recognised researcher and author on early childhood health, Professor Frank ...

22. The big issues facing our kids
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... reports of violence - and politicians creating the impression of unsafe streets for political advantage. The emergence of personal safety as a major concern carries broader repercussions. Research shows ...

23. Mission Australia welcomes Homelessness Revolution
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... skills, cooking classes and access to gym equipment. “These supports are ‘wrapped around’ the accommodation so no one falls through the cracks. “We’re also investing heavily in the research behind ...

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

... programs – they’re based on sound research and we have the evidence to prove they work. Income quarantining trials may only be in their early stages, but at the moment we don’t have any solid evidence ...

25. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)

... as a researcher with Business Review Weekly and Prime Television. In 1991 she moved to FM radio as a newsreader and music program host, first in community radio and then with the ABC's youth FM radio station, ...