Mission Australia

1. Left out and missing out: Disability and disadvantage
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Recent research by the Social Policy Research Centre, Anglicare, Mission Australia and others has found that where there is someone in a household with a disability, poverty rates are higher and hardship ...

2. Left out and missing out: Voices from the margins
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Around one in seven Australians who turn to welfare organisations for help lack a substantial meal at least once a day accoridng to new research released in Anti-Poverty Week (14-20 October)

3. Missionbeat: a Sydney icon turns 30
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...  “Having said that, I wouldn’t mind us missing out on our 60th anniversary. We’d love to see government targets met to find accommodation for all roughsleepers by the end of the next decade – and that ...

4. NT Volunteer Opportunities
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... in their bike usually with two flat tires and a couple of parts missing. The volunteer bike mechanics instruct the kids on how to fix the tyres usually by doing one themselves. They have to be inventive ...

5. When Gambling is No Longer Fun
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... that while its impacts can be devastating, gambling can be a carefully guarded secret, often until it’s too late. Indicators such as poorly explained absences from home or work, missing household items, ...

6. Campaign Kicks Off to Raise $100,000 for the Homeless
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... people who are missing out on a basic need – a need which so many of us take for granted – shelter. “Mission Australia is doing important work, and we are glad to be their partners in helping homeless ...

7. New poverty research shows Australians missing out
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of poverty. The report is part of an Australian Research Council-funded project called “Left out and missing out: Towards new indicators of disadvantage” – led by Professor Peter Saunders from the Social ...

8. Don’t forget homeless in housing affordability debate
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... he said. “But while much of the focus has been rightly on how to help families juggling mortgage repayments or rent, the sharp end of the debate seems to have gone missing – how the lack of housing affordability ...

9. Combating youth unemployment rates in Tasmania
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... of young people are missing out as a result. “We’ve identified the nine key factors which impact on transition and our goal should be to support all young people to develop them. “If we’re serious ...

10. New blueprint to tackle causes of Australia’s youth unemployment problem
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... solved, we know what works. The problem is what’s currently being done is too isolated and thousands of young people are missing out as a result. “We’ve identified the nine key factors which impact on ...

11. Unlimited Ways of Learning For ‘At Risk’ Students in South Australia
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... to study ‘off-campus’, part-time, and in small groups. They also receive dedicated support to help them deal with issues they may still be facing, whether they are low skills levels as a result of missing ...