Search - Welfare

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

... from the livestock sales every day, talking about the low prices and the suicides occurring out of utter despair. I realised I wanted to get back into community welfare, where I began. Within three days ...

2. Report shows need to work harder to help homeless children and youth
(Daily News/Blog)

... Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) found that more than 90,000 clients were assisted by specialist homelessness agencies between July and September 2011. Of those clients 50 per cent were ...

3. Need for boarding house reform back in the news
(Daily News/Blog)

... despite thousands of Victorians living in rooming houses, there is no requirement to provide them with locks in toilets, periodic safety checks and at least two power outlets in each bedroom. Local welfare ...

4. Crisis centres unable to meet homeless demand: The Project
(Daily News/Blog)

... of Health and Welfare (AIHW) that showed close to 60 per cent of people who need help from government-funded specialist homeless agencies were turned away. The data showed that of people needing ...

5. Half all youths in juvenile detention unsentenced: AIHW
(Daily News/Blog)

... and Welfare (AIHW). The Juvenile Detention population in Australia 2011 report found that on an average night in the June quarter of 2011 there were 1,055 young people in detention, and 48 per cent who ...

6. Young mums tell Women’s Weekly why they’re Aim’n High
(Daily News/Blog)

... Australian Women's Weekly Bethany and one of her classmates from Aim’n High recently spoke about their experiences on Sunrise ‘Call for compassion in program to move young mothers off welfare’ in the Sydney ...

7. Executive Leadership Team (ELT)
(Pathways/About Us)

... the UK’s largest provider of welfare to work programs – and a Director of Goodstart Early Learning.   Bruce Eagles  Grad Dip Christian Ministry National Chaplain Having served ...

8. Concern at the number of homeless people turned away
(Daily News/Blog)

... 15 December 2011 by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), shows that of people needing new and immediate accommodation in 2010-11, 59 per cent were unable to be placed. The AIHW’s ...

9. Staff on a mission all pull together
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... 2009 it became the first Australian welfare organisation to launch a Reconciliation Action Plan aimed at reducing the gap in living standards between Aboriginal people and other Australians. The plan focuses ...

10. Lead experts
(Pathways/About Us)

... for sector reform. Mission Australia also pushed for welfare reform, particularly better support for people on the Disability Support Pension to join the workforce. And we helped shape reforms to the ...

11. Calculate your household carbon price on new interactive site
(Daily News/Blog)

... weekly costs are largely covered and most people end up with money in their pocket." ACOSS, the peak body of the community services and welfare sector and a national voice for the needs of people affected ...

12. Homeless children left in the cold by patchwork reform
(Daily News/Blog)

One of the country’s largest providers of accommodation and support services for homeless people says Australia’s homeless children are being let down by a patchwork approach to their welfare and a lack ...

13. Is there a better approach to remote Aboriginal communities?
(Daily News/Blog)

... in these endeavours have been blunted by years of welfare dependency? New Zealand might give us some ideas on how to achieve it. The NZ Local Government Act of 2002 introduced a series of reforms to bring ...

14. Meagre dole payment doesn't just hurt the unemployed: Toby Hall
(Daily News/Blog)

... providing job seekers with the right balance between obligations and incentives to get them into work and keep them there. One of the chief recommendations of the McClure Report into welfare reform – ...

15. Letter to the Editor from Toby Hall, CEO, Mission Australia
(Daily News/Blog)

... in an office in Belconnen and not those working on the frontline of the problem? Johns claims this issue has revealed the “dark corner” of the welfare sector. What fantasy. The only darkness revealed ...

16. How fair are unemployment benefits?
(Daily News/Blog)

Media Coverage: ABC TV 7.30, 5 October 2011 The ABC reported there was consensus at this week’s Canberra tax forum on an unexpected issue. Experts from business and welfare groups all agreed that the ...

17. How fair are unemployment benefits?
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media Coverage - ABC TV 7.30, 5 October 2011 The ABC reported there was consensus at this week’s Canberra tax forum on an unexpected issue. Experts from business and welfare groups all agreed that the ...

18. Kids in limbo, Australia's growing reliance on juvenile remand
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... community welfare organisations are calling for a shift towards intensive support programs instead. The South Australian Social Inclusion Unit's To Break The Cycle report and Mission Australia's publication ...

19. Government must change policy on unaccompanied refugee children
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of the country’s churches and welfare agencies to raise their voices in public support. Mission Australia’s CEO, Toby Hall, said most fair-minded people would be uncomfortable with the prospect of ...

20. Poor housing and illness intrinsically linked, reports show
(News/Media Releases Archive)

VicHealth Media Release, 4 August The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) and Hanover Welfare Services have put the spotlight on the links between housing and health in Australia, with the ...

21. Reform efforts have charities all atwitter
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... welfare space than other countries,” Morris-Smith says. “I think the financial community has an important role to play in advancing that conversation by collecting rigorous data and constructing benchmarks.” ...

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

... help from government-funded homeless shelters are turned away each day. The data, released this morning by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, show thatof people needing new and immediate accommodation ...

23. Mental pain catches bad backs
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - The Australian, 7 June 2011 Mental illness is set to overtake "bad backs" as the most common reason for receiving the disability support pension, and welfare and employment services groups ...

24. MA welcomes budget focus on disadvantaged areas
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... people’s reciprocal obligations – obligations we think are in line with community expectations,” said Mr Hall. “There’s nothing in the government’s welfare-to-work changes that we think are particularly ...

25. System fails jobless on disability support
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - Newcastle Herald, 10 May 2011 As we prepare for tonight’s Budget, Mission Australia’s CEO Toby Hall says it’s time to take the emotion out of the welfare reform debate and realise the ...