Mission Australia

1. Job Seeker Solutions Coordinator
(Work For Mission Australia/ Mission Australia Jobs - New South Wales)

... be our ‘know it all’ in terms of job seeker and office activity in order to inform all parties and seek out placement and business opportunities. Prior experience in Employment Services will be highly ...

2. Leading charities provide a new start for ABC Learning
(News/Media Releases Archive)

A new chapter for Australian childcare begins today with the announcement that four highly-respected non-profit organisations have formed a new company to purchase ABC Learning. Subject to finalisation ...

3. Feds should play role in urban planning to improve housing affordability
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Cities’ initiative of the Keating Government as a model of what can be done in this area. “While the program had its limitations it also produced some highly successful affordable housing developments ...

4. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)

... Triple J, for which she presented until 1996. Former host of the Nine Network's series Wonder World, she is best-known as a presenter for the network's highly successful travel series, "Getaway". In 2006 ...

5. Jobs at Mission Australia
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Mission Australia Jobs)

... vacancies Register for Job Alerts Find out how you can benefit from working for Mission Australia Mission Australia offers a variety of positions in community and employment services for highly ...

6. Graduate Program
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Graduate and Work Experience)

What it's all about: Mission Australia is one of the nation's largest and most highly regarded community service organisations. Our graduate program gives graduates the opportunity to gain invaluable ...

7. NSW/ACT Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... Western Youth Peer Education, Liverpool South Western Youth Peer Education provides unique creative and educational opportunities for young people in the highly disadvantaged suburb of Miller, in South ...

8. Early Learning Services - Key goals
(Early Learning Services/Early Learning)

... believes that highly skilled, well informed team players are critical in providing a quality early learning service. Mission Australia Early Learning Services encourages staff to: Professional, skilled ...

9. Early Learning Services
(Early Learning Services/Early Learning)

... - Mission Australia Early Learning Services believe that highly skilled, well informed team players are critical in providing a quality early learning service.  ...

10. Our Volunteers
(Volunteer/Volunteers)

... work experience, retirees, recently-arrived migrants wanting to contribute to their new country and highly skilled professionals. The employees of our Corporate Partners are also involved in volunteering. ...

11. Specials & Events
(Big Heart/information)

... a community volunteer day.  This involved staff donating a range of their items, then sorting and packaging them ready to be transported to the new Big Heart shop in Campbelltown.  It was a highly successful ...

12. Drugs a growing concern for young Australians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... portrayal of young people as highly materialistic, when asked what they value, financial security lags way behind family and friends. “And young males are twice as likely as young females to highly value ...

13. Training investment will boost employment
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... when unemployment is likely to rise. Mission Australia CEO Toby Hall said that Productivity Places Programme (PPP) had been highly subscribed and the increased funding offered an opportunity for the long ...

14. Mission Australia supports local music in the south
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... four reaching finals on Monday, 5 October... The winner will receive cash, prizes and, says Ms Sellen, “highly sought-after MySpace bragging rights”. Ms Sellen says Mission Australia, in partnership ...

15. Tackling truancy - is cutting welfare payments an effective method?
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... to award to pupils who showed the biggest attitudinal and academic change. Or in Ngukurr in the Northern Territory, where that community’s highly successful ‘no school, no swimming pool’ policy has been ...

16. Flexible Job Network will help disadvantaged job seekers
(News/Media Releases Archive)

FLEXIBLE JOB NETWORK WILL HELP DISADVANTAGED JOB SEEKERS Mission Australia welcomes the Rudd Government’s commitment to helping highly disadvantaged job seekers who have not benefited from the economic ...

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

... young people stay temporarily at the house of a carefully screened volunteer. This would allow Reconnect’s highly skilled staff do their job and work on the issues at the heart of the parent-young person ...

18. Vodafone Foundation Australia
(Partnerships/Major Corporate and Community Partners)

... and have highly complex needs such as alcohol and/or other drug dependency, mental health issues, disabilities, educational barriers, legal problems and/or are victims of abuse. This program has helped ...

19. Body image the main concern for young Australians
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... people as highly materialistic, when asked what they value, financial security lags some way behind family and friends. “Overall, the results show young Australians place an enormous importance on family ...

20. Experiences of young homeless people make for a surprise
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of homeless young respondents – compared to three-quarters of other young people – highly valued ‘family relationships’. A much higher proportion of homeless young people valued ‘environmental issues’ ...

21. Growing numbers of grandparent-carers evidence of emerging social phenomenon
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... on the role of primary carers of their grandchildren. Mission Australia spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, said the numbers of grandparent-carers in Australia was highly likely to be underestimated and required ...

22. Tasmanian youth wanted for national youth survey
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... 39.5%. More females ranked friendships as important (67.9%) than males (59.2%). Just over 46% of males, compared with around 21.9% of females, valued getting a job highly. 31.5% of Tasmanian ...

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

... 30% of males, compared with around 14% of females, valued getting a job highly. Much higher proportion of males than females are significantly concerned about alcohol and other drugs – 34.2% compared ...

24. Youth Survey uncovers the differences between young Sydney siders and their rural cousins
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Young people living in rural/regional areas of NSW value getting a job more highly than their Sydney counterparts, according to a survey carried out by community service organisation, Mission Australia. ...

25. Youth Survey uncovers the differences between young Victorians living in Melboune and rural areas
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... – 52.3% in rural areas, 47.7% in Melbourne. Other results which reveal the differences between rural and metro-based Victorians include: Being independent was highly valued by more young Victorians ...