Mission Australia

1. Partnerships in Action - July 2007
(Download:Partnership News)

Totally funded by the Vodafone Australia Foundation, the Youth Arts Program (YAP) is an innovative program which engages disadvantaged young people in an art program with local Tasmanian artists to develop ...

2. Mission Australia NEIS
(Employment Services/Providers)

... a year of NEIS payments – paid fortnightly, and totalling over eleven thousand dollars and paid independent of business income.  They will also be assigned a Business Mentor who provides guidance for the ...

3. Sustainability
(Pathways/About Us)

...  Project Circuit Breaker Queensland Summary Report 2006 2007 Queensland Project Roll-out In 2007, a total of fifteen Mission Australia sites participated in the sustainability project, examining ...

4. U-Turn graduates donate restored car
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... repairs and finished off with a total respray. “The opportunity for participants to repair a vehicle for presentation to a worthy recipient is one of the most important components of the U-Turn program.” ...

5. Making university education accessible to disadvantaged Australians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... students to complete a unit in the Catalyst-Clemente program in Melbourne. “A total of eight students successfully completed a subject in the first semester of 2008, including all the university assessment ...

6. Spiralling fuel costs hurt Sydney's Missionbeat vans
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... needing refuelling every second day, that makes a total weekly petrol bill of close to $1200. The Manager of Mission Australia’s Missionbeat, Daniel Petsalis, said rising petrol prices made life ...

7. Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Mid-winter Ball.
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Australia was the major charity beneficiary and its share of the funds ($225,000 in total was raised on the night – a record for the event – with $70,000 being shared between several other charities) will ...

8. Campaign Kicks Off to Raise $100,000 for the Homeless
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... the country’s largest real estate website—realestate.com.au—will donate one dollar to the charity so it can provide support to homeless people, up to a total of $100,000. realestate.com.au’s General Manager ...

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

... that the eradication of homelessness in Australia must be our goal – and we can achieve it. Given that young Australians make up almost half the total number of the country’s homeless, and considering ...

10. Making or Changing Your Will
(Donations/Bequests)

... general purposes and declare that the receipt of an executive officer at the time, shall be sufficient discharge of my executor’s duty. 3. A percentage of your total estate You may choose to give any ...

11. Internship Success - Alexis Bradshaw
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Graduate and Work Experience)

... maternity relief position, I was successful in my application for the role and this is where I have been since. In total I have been at Mission Australia for over two years and I don’t have any doubt that ...

12. University courses for disadvantaged Australians offer a path out of poverty
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... to be able to apply themselves to a university subject on Australian literature, or be part of a performance of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. “A total of 17 out of 30 students successfully ...

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

... (18.9%) and females (14.4%). 21.4% of total respondents (more than 3,000 young people) were involved in volunteering activities. Volunteering increases significantly among 20-24 year olds (36.6%), ...

14. World Suicide Prevention Day
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... suicide and self harm among young people.” Among 15-19 year old Australians, suicide accounted for a total of 85 registered deaths in 2004, at a rate of 6.2 per 100,000 people (7.5 for males, 4.8 for ...