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

... last month of a 31-year-old Melbourne man who was unable to find a place to stay at a full crisis centre. Last December Mission Australia expressed its concern at figures released by Australian Institute ...

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

... Children's and Youth Law Centre, Matthew Keeley, told the ABC’s AM the figures were unacceptable and all governments should be doing more to bring youth detention rates down. Aboriginal youth detention ...

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

Mission Australia has expressed its concern at new figures that show close to 60 per cent of people who need help from government-funded specialist homeless agencies are turned away. The data, released ...

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

... to households, the online calculator is based on figures and information independently and rigorously researched by the CSIRO and AECOM. The research was commissioned by The Climate Institute in partnership ...

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

... (under 18) accessed a specialist homelessness service with a parent or guardian – equivalent to one in 60 Australian children and one in every 38 Australian children four years or younger. These figures ...

6. Getting homeless men off the winter streets
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... doesn’t exist. “The number of homeless is yet to be clarified, but we are maintaining a database now that should give us reliable figures in six to 12 months. “The leading causes of homelessness ...

7. Bold approach to homelessness will take 70 most vulnerable off streets
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - SMH, 3 August 2011 Seventy people who call the streets and underpasses of inner Sydney home will be put into permanent housing under a new scheme, as figures show a jump in the number ...

8. Homeless service staff spend more hours assisting people with mental health than homelessness
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... face from people wrestling with mental illness in addition to their need for shelter. “When you look at these figures, there’s no doubting how big an issue mental health is for both the people accessing ...

9. Homebuyers shut out until 2020
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... has become severely unaffordable and will remain so for at least the next 10 years. One of the most surprising figures to come out of the report was how unaffordable houses in places such as Newcastle ...

10. Alarming drop-out rates in Dandenong
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... or employed in Greater Dandenong. “We would experience a high number of people leaving schools, but have no figures because schools aren’t recording it,” Mr Bird said. “But I think it’s happening ...

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

MA Media Release, 7 June 2011 Mission Australia - one of the largest providers of homeless services in the country – has expressed its concern at new figures which show close to 60% of people who need ...

12. New report highlights Australian job opportunities
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... figures, helping job seekers and employment service providers alike. This year’s report focuses on regional labour markets and contains useful information about occupations and industries and about state ...

13. Fighting the drop-out factor
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... as seeking full-time work, according to ABS figures. Some may work part-time or do the occasional short course, but many are not. Paul Bird, state director for Mission Australia, says such teenagers ...

14. Inequality is growing in Australia: ACOSS
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... were living in poverty and 105,000 were homeless, but we believe these numbers are likely to be higher. "Preliminary figures from our 2011 Community Sector Survey show the number of people accessing and ...