Search - august

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

... select Mission Australia as your charity of choice. Gold Coast Airport Marathon - 30 June-1 July Run Melbourne - 15 July Sydney City2Surf - 12 August Perth City to Surf - 26 August ...

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

Each year thousands of people swap their warm beds for sleeping bags for just one night to get an idea of what it’s like to be homeless. Held during National Homeless Persons’ Week, from 6 to 12 August, ...

3. 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 ...

4. Our partners
(Partnerships/Major Corporate and Community Partners)

... industrial products, e-commerce and private equity. The Sydney office opened in 1989 to provide Asia Pacific coverage for Bain's worldwide clients. The Melbourne office opened in August 2000.  Find ...

5. Reconnecting with life
(Community Services/Community Services)

... his life, he has begun to save money. In August this year, Daniel was ecstatic to tell Lucy that he successfully passed his driving test. “Daniel has been through so much in his life and yet he has not ...

6. Kicking problem gambling in Canberra
(Daily News/Blog)

... found that less than one per cent of adults in the ACT had looked for formal help. Opened in August, Mission Australia Gambling Counselling and Support is available to anyone in the ACT who is affected ...

7. It's street charity
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - Moonee Valley Leader, 29 August 2011 A girl has spent her 12th birthday sleeping on the street in Essendon, all in the name of charity. Tahlia, of Derrimut, hosted a winter sleepout ...

8. Media coverage - Moonee Valley Leader: It's street charity
(Daily News/Blog)

A girl has spent her 12th birthday sleeping on the street in Essendon, all in the name of charity. Tahlia, of Derrimut, hosted a winter sleepout outside an Essendon taekwondo centre on August 20 to help ...

9. LLNP changing lives on the Mid-North Coast
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - NBN TV, 31 August 2011 A Mission Australia-run program in Taree and Forster-Tuncurry, New South Wales, is having great success helping adults improve their reading, writing, speaking and ...

10. We welcome High Court decision not to deport children
(News/Media Releases Archive)

MA Media Release - 31 August 2011 Two of the nation’s leading community service organisations, Baptcare and Mission Australia, have welcomed the High Court’s ruling that it is illegal to send unaccompanied ...

11. Help them, don't lock them away
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - Courier Mail, 31 August 2011 As the number of young people entering youth detention centres continues to rise and members of the community express desperation over how to stop youth offending, ...

12. Media coverage - Courier Mail: Help them, don't lock them away
(Daily News/Blog)

... would reap the benefits. This article was originally posted to the Courier Mail on 31 August 2011   ...

13. New interactive campaign aims to curb motor vehicle theft among youth
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - ABC, 26 August 2011 ABC's 7.30 aired a report on Friday night about a new, interactive anti-theft video campaign aimed to discourage young people from getting involved in motor vehicle ...

14. Media coverage - ABC: Toby Hall talks social enterprise
(Daily News/Blog)

... conditions in a safe, supported environment – and one that allows them to make mistakes they can learn from. Listen to ‘Saturday Extra’, presented by Joe Gelonesi on 27 August 2011, ABC Radio Nationa ...

15. Toby Hall talks social enterprise
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - ABC Radio National, 27 August 2011 On Saturday morning Mission Australia CEO Toby Hall joined Tony Vinson, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of ...

16. Early help is best way for juveniles
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - Letter to the Editor, Cairns Post, 26 August 2011 I respond to the article, ‘Calls to name and shame young offenders’. As one of Australia's leading providers of services to young people ...

17. Overcoming rural homelessness
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - Prime News, 19 August 2011 Mission Australia’s Central and Far Western Community Services Manager, Luke Butcher, recently spoke to Prime Seven News about the success of the Homelessness ...

18. Push for child-friendliness
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - St Mary's Star, 23 August 2011 Steps to make Mt Druitt more child-friendly will begin next Tuesday, August 30. Mission Australia's Mt Druitt Communities for Children invites families to ...

19. Horticultural skills for young at Perth’s City Farm
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - Guardian Express, 23 August 2011 Young people will get hands-on experience at City Farm in East Perth as part of new government initiatives to train them in environmental and horticultural ...

20. Leading charities and church offer to house unaccompanied asylum seeker children
(News/Media Releases Archive)

MA Media Release, 22 August 2011 On the day the full bench of the High Court meets to consider an injunction on the Australian Government's "Malaysia solution" for asylum seekers, two of the nation's leading ...

21. Call goes out for asylum policy based on 'better angels of our nature'
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - The Age, 22 August 2011 Prominent business and union leaders have endorsed a new strategy on asylum seekers that would have mandatory detention phased out within two years and Australia's ...

22. Local Mission Australia staff sleep out to help the homeless
(News/Media Releases Archive)

MA Media Release, 19 August 2011 More than thirty staff from Mission Australia’s Employment Solutions offices on the Gold Coast & the crew from Southport Rotaract Club offices will brave the winter cold ...

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

Media coverage - The Drum, 17 August 2011 Throughout Australian jurisdictions detention is considered an option of last resort in combating juvenile offending, with custodial sentences imposed only when ...

24. 70 jobs in Warwick region Indigenous Employment project
(News/Media Releases Archive)

DEEWR Media Release, 17 August 2011 Up to 70 Indigenous jobseekers from Warwick, Stanthorpe, Goondiwindi, St George and Dirranbandi will be part of an employment project thanks to the Australian Government’s ...

25. Call to give kids drug/alcohol lessons
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - West Australian, 15 August 2011 The WA head of Mission Australia wants more comprehensive drug education in primary schools as children as young as 10 dabble in alcohol and cannabis.  ...