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1. Miller Pathways celebrate Families Week
(Daily News/Blog)

Mission Australia’s child and family service in the Liverpool area, Miller Pathways, celebrated Families Week on Friday by hosting a free Community Fun Day. The Federal Minister for Human Services, Senator ...

2. ‘Rediscover the real you’: George shares how he beat his gambling problem
(Daily News/Blog)

Given it’s Responsible Gambling Awareness Week, we’d like to share an inspirational letter recently sent to a Mission Australia’s Gambling Counsellor. Written from the heart, it beautifully sums up George’s ...

3. A big hand for our wonderful volunteers
(Daily News/Blog)

Here at Mission Australia we want to take this opportunity in National Volunteers Week to express our deep appreciation of the work our band of volunteers do. Every week hundreds of people from all walks ...

4. What drives our Home Tutor Scheme volunteers to give?
(Daily News/Blog)

This month Mission Australia is celebrating our volunteers and asking Australians to try a little tenderness and get behind Channel 10’s 1 Million Acts of Kindness campaign. So we figured it was a fine ...

5. Responsible Gambling Awareness Week: Seniors at risk
(Daily News/Blog)

More seniors are turning to gambling to escape boredom, loneliness or the recent loss of a loved one, says Mission Australia’s ACT Gambling Counselling and Support Service Counsellor Karen Rendall. Ms ...

6. Going Places up for Workplace Innovation Award
(Daily News/Blog)

Mission Australia’s Going Places service in Cairns, which helps disadvantaged locals to find and sustain housing, has been named as a finalist in the 2012 Health and Community Services Workforce Innovation ...

7. Triple Care Farms students give back to local community
(Daily News/Blog)

Students from Mission Australia’s Triple Care Farm recently found out that voluntary acts of kindness in the community can bring rewards. Eighteen students from Triple Care Farm’s residential program ...

8. “Gambling. If you have to lie, we need to talk.”
(Daily News/Blog)

That’s the message from Mission Australia’s ACT Gambling Counselling and Support Service, which is launching its new advertising campaign today. The campaign’s confronting image – which shows a mouth ...

9. New SA program aims to help youth feel good about their bodies
(Daily News/Blog)

In what is believed to be an Australian first, Mission Australia is launching an Adelaide-based program to help young people who are worried about personal appearance and the media portrayal of “the perfect ...

10. Cautious support for Budget, but more to do
(Daily News/Blog)

Mission Australia has given its cautious support to this year’s Federal Budget but has queried whether the government’s efforts to encourage more Australians into workforce participation are built on an ...

11. Working families losing grip on secure housing
(News/MA Newsletter)

With the price of homes for rent or sale rising faster than Australian incomes and rental vacancies plunging below 1%, we are seeing more working families on the brink of homelessness. There are a multitude ...

12. Junaa Buwa! Centre for Youth Wellbeing (NSW)
(Community Services/Community Services)

... misuse. The name Junaa Buwa! means “to declare a new beginning’” in the local Gumbaynggirr language. This Mission Australia service provides holistic three-month live-in drug and alcohol rehabilitation ...

13. Get a headstart in the City2Surf Gold Charity
(Daily News/Blog)

The days are cooling down, which means it’s time to start training for the Sydney City2Surf. And now Mission Australia has been named a City2Surf Gold Charity it’s the perfect time to get involved. ...

14. Aim’n High (VIC)
(Community Services/Community Services)

The Aim’n High program is a collaboration between Mission Australia, Hallam Senior Secondary College and South East Local Learning and Employment Network. It aims to assist young mothers in the Greater ...

15. Children busy renovating in the playground
(Daily News/Blog)

We couldn’t pass up the chance to share this cute snap that recently appeared in The Lakes Mail of children at Mission Australia’s Cooranbong Early Learning Service (ELS) busy at work in their playground. ...

16. Geni’s story
(News/MA Newsletter)

... experience of a young woman who was helped by Mission Australia’s Wattle House. Geni* and her children were dropped at the border of Somalia and Kenya. From there, they walked for over a month to reach ...

17. Winter Sleepout 2012: get involved!
(News/MA Newsletter)

... Australia’s Winter Sleepout I knew it was something I could do to turn that feeling of helplessness into something useful.” You can help people struggling this winter. By registering to sleep out or ...

18. The cost of homelessness
(News/MA Newsletter)

Have you ever wondered how much homelessness costs Australians each year? We have, and what we found may surprise you. Mission Australia’s recent report The Michael Project: New perspectives and possibilities ...

19. Insight with Cheryl O’Donnell, Southern NSW Community Services Operations Manager
(News/MA Newsletter)

"It was the peak of the drought when I decided to work for Mission Australia. I was in a management role with Ford Australia and saw so many people who were beaten by the drought. "Guys would come in ...

20. MA Housing celebrates first anniversary at its Blacktown base
(Daily News/Blog)

... of the Mission Australia Group, identified Blacktown as the best location to base its operations, given its public transport links and access to residents from across Western Sydney. The community housing ...

21. Government to establish new Children’s Commissioner role
(Daily News/Blog)

The Gillard Government has announced the creation of a National Children’s Commissioner within the Australian Human Rights Commission. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said the new commissioner will ...

22. Our Roma House adventurers scale new heights
(Daily News/Blog)

A group of current and former residents from Mission Australia’s Roma House in Brisbane yesterday scaled the cliffs at Kangaroo Point as part of the homeless service’s innovative Wild Earth Adventures ...

23. Attack on homeless man highlights dangers of rough sleeping
(Daily News/Blog)

Mission Australia’s Michael Project report, released last week, indicated the high incidence of traumatic experience, including serious physical assault, among people who are homeless. Today’s news about ...

24. Westpac team to take on Kokoda Track for good causes
(Daily News/Blog)

In late August a small team comprising Westpac staff and customers from across Australia and the Pacific Islands will trek along the Kokoda Track to raise funds for Mission Australia and the Save the Children ...

25. A reminder to bet with your head on Anzac Day
(Daily News/Blog)

... a Gambling Counsellor at Mission Australia’s ACT Gambling Counselling and Support Services, said while it can be fun to have a flutter, gambling shouldn’t be used to relieve stress such as uncertainty ...