Mission Australia

1. ABC Learning centres purchase – a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity
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... story:  Volunteering is a life-changing experience Previous story:  We must act now to save a lost generation   ...

2. We must act now to save a lost generation
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... will find ourselves with a large pool of untrained and unemployed young people with insufficient education to contribute fully to Australian society – a lost generation.” The solution What can be done? ...

3. Head Game: new Sounds of the Street Album
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... dealing with substance abuse, or a sweetly sung lament on loves lost and remembered, or a billowing gothic industrial epic on what it's like to really live on the streets,” said Michael Hanlon, one ...

4. When Gambling is No Longer Fun
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... recreational gamblers expect to lose. So if you spent some of your day sitting at one of Australia’s millions of poker machines, chasing the money you lost yesterday in the hope of paying your electricity ...

5. Suit appeal for victims of bushfires now closed
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... formal attire so that families who have lost relatives and their homes, can attend funerals appropriately dressed. “We are absolutely astounded by the response from the community and retail businesses ...

6. Tackling truancy - is cutting welfare payments an effective method?
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... have a responsibility for their children’s welfare and education. Kids must go to school and be safe in the home. In the exchange of views one thing seems to have been lost – why are we only looking at ...

7. Gambling binge cost the State Billions
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The people of NSW lost a staggering $5 billion to poker machines in a relentless gambling binge in 2006. That’s an increase of 14 percent since 2002 and represents a loss of $732.00 for every man, woman ...

8. Indigenous problem gamblers need greater support
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... games) was used to provide for families. Resources gambled stayed inside the community and helped support it. “But money placed in poker machines is lost to the community and does not provide any benefits ...

9. Don’t forget homeless in housing affordability debate
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... people who need emergency support because they’ve lost the roof over their heads for a variety of reasons. But we’re also having more trouble helping them to move back into the community when they’ve addressed ...

10. Talented young Indigenous people blaze new trail under IYMP
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... you’re doing, that you’re not getting lost in the crowd,” she said. “And they support us culturally – although we don’t want to be stereotyped, we also don’t want to be treated as though Aboriginal people ...

11. Rising cost of living set to increase numbers at Christmas Lunch in the Park
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... but we are expecting to reach - or even surpass – 2,000 people at this year’s event. The majority of our guests will be struggling families, homeless people, migrants and those who have lost loved ones ...

12. Help for workers in Gippsland's drought affected areas
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...  The Drought Force program helps individual farms and farm communities that have been severely affected by drought. The program allows workers who have lost their jobs due to drought, return to work ...

13. Story on live music scene in Adelaide’s south
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... on the size and scope that we do without their commitment and I’ve lost count of the hours they’ve spent here helping out,” she said. Friday’s event will feature music for all tastes, including the huge ...

14. Anti-poverty Week - Terms and Conditions
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... or equipment malfunction (whether or not under the Promoter’s control); (b) any theft, unauthorized access or third party interference; (c) any entry or prize claim that is late, lost, altered, damaged ...

15. You can help transform the lives of homeless Australians this winter.
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... support networks that we need to rely on when we face challenges in our lives*. If you lost your job and couldn't afford your home, what would you do? Last year, Mission Australia assisted 32,211*** ...