Mission Australia

1. Policy Submissions
(Document Downloads)

Mission Australia's responses and submissions to Government, on areas of concern such as the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians, pathways for disadvantaged youth, education and training, and homeless ...

2. NYS 2008 Aboriginal Summary
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Aboriginal summary from the National Survey of Young Australians 2008

3. NYS 2007 National and Aboriginal Summaries
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National and aboriginal summaries from the National Survey of Young Australians 2007

4. Our Response to the Commonwealth Gov Discussion Paper - Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity
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Mission Australia strongly supports the Commonwealth Government’s major focus on the wellbeing of aboriginal Australians. To impact upon aboriginal economic participation positively and sustainably, Mission ...

5. Addressing Indigenous Disadvantage - Nicholas Biddle
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Nicholas Biddle and Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) and Ruth McCausland, Jumbunna’s Research Unit.

6. Addressing Indigenous Disadvantage - Ruth McCausland
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Nicholas Biddle and Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) and Ruth McCausland, Jumbunna’s Research Unit.

7. The scale, composition and some solutions to the housing needs of Indigenous Australians
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Nicholas Biddle, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU.

8. Mission Australia to host community forum at Rooty Hill RSL today
(News/Media Releases Archive)

...  Mt Druitt Communities for Children is funded by the Federal Government’s Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. For more information on Mission Australia's Communities ...

9. Pathways away from homelessness
(Community Services/Community Services)

... Community Services & Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA), the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the NSW Department of Community Services (DOCS). Homelessness NSW, the Women’s Refuge Movement ...

10. Community Services in South Australia
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... through a successful youth: Mission Australia Centre Onkaparinga Youth Services (OYS) Learning Unlimited Programs The Indigenous Youth Mobility Program Pathways towards strong families ...

11. Community Services in the Northern Territory
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... in Darwin and Katherine Indigenous Youth Mobility Program (IYMP) Northern Territory Integrated Youth Service Pathways to strong families and healthy, happy children: Sobering Up Shelters in ...

12. Playschool star entertains Mt Druitt kids at Communities for Children’s parenting expo
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Families Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs. Media contact: Patrick Flynn (02) 9641 5031 or 0407 411 256  ...

13. West Heidelberg community unites to celebrate Harmony Day
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Member for Jagajaga; Jenny Mikakos MP, Member for Northern Metropolitan Region; Craig Langdon MP, Member for Ivanhoe; and Cr ...

14. Taree families Invited to free Expo
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Services & Indigenous Affairs. Event: Mission Australia Communities for Children Free Family Expo When:  Sunday, 15 March from 10am to 2pm - Official Opening by Mayor Paul Hogan at 10am Where:  Taree ...

15. The welfare experiment - an opinion piece from Mission Australia's CEO, Toby Hall
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... to 1000 families in 2008-2009. Another change is that the income quarantining measures that were part of the Northern Territory intervention were targeted at Indigenous families – a point of much contention ...

16. Latest homeless figures reflect 'wasted years of inaction'
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... people – aged 24 or under – who were homeless was 44,577 – down from 46,114 in 2001, a decrease of 3.3 per cent. - 9.9 per cent, or 10,362 homeless people, are Indigenous – up from 8491 in 2001, an increase ...

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

... (Behrendt is professor of law and indigenous studies at Sydney's University of Technology) in which she outlined some of the successful initiatives that have been used to combat truancy in Indigenous communities ...

18. Mission Australia's Michael Project for the homeless launched today
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... emergency departments; it is also employing the services of a psychologist, an occupational therapist, a drug and alcohol counsellor, an Indigenous outreach worker, along with dentists, barbers, podiatrists ...

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

... through all this is that we can’t treat homeless youth as one homogenous group. The needs of a homeless young person in Kings Cross are going to be different to a young homeless Indigenous person in a ...

20. Indigenous problem gamblers need greater support
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Mission Australia has welcomed a report by the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW which calls for greater efforts to help engage Indigenous communities on the issue of problem gambling. ...

21. Learning the ropes on trip of a lifetime
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... on the head and the risk of seasickness are a small price to pay for such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Dave Rickets, from Mission Australia’s special indigenous program NOW (No Opportunities Wasted), ...

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

... Australia recommends the Commonwealth expand effective services similar to its own Grandparents Project – a program it runs in partnership with the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous ...

23. UN report on Australian housing crisis rings true
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... away because of lack of room. “The problem in Australia with housing is acute, particularly among Indigenous communities and the thousands of low-income people living in ‘housing stress’ who are spending ...

24. Talented young Indigenous people blaze new trail under IYMP
(News/Media Releases Archive)

A group of talented young Indigenous people from remote and regional Australia is defying stereotypes under an innovative programme now being run in South Australia. The Indigenous Youth Mobility Programme ...

25. Combating youth unemployment rates in Tasmania
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... including those who are most marginalised. • Expand the Commonwealth Government’s Indigenous Youth Employment Consultants and Indigenous Youth Mobility programs to more regions around Australia. • ...