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1. Lead experts
(Pathways/About Us)

... Affairs Unit. As a result, our voice has grown stronger. In 2011 we backed poker machine reform and welcomed plans to establish an Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission, having lobbied ...

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

One of the country’s largest providers of accommodation and support services for homeless people says Australia’s homeless children are being let down by a patchwork approach to their welfare and a lack ...

3. Is there a better approach to remote Aboriginal communities?
(Daily News/Blog)

... in these endeavours have been blunted by years of welfare dependency? New Zealand might give us some ideas on how to achieve it. The NZ Local Government Act of 2002 introduced a series of reforms to bring ...

4. Meagre dole payment doesn't just hurt the unemployed: Toby Hall
(Daily News/Blog)

... providing job seekers with the right balance between obligations and incentives to get them into work and keep them there. One of the chief recommendations of the McClure Report into welfare reform – ...

5. ABC Radio Media Coverage: Expert rubbishes AFL’s pokies warning
(Daily News/Blog)

... gambling reforms’  ...

6. Call to protect vulnerable boarding house residents
(Daily News/Blog)

... access to money, family and phones. 'More than board and lodging: the need for boarding house reform', tabled in NSW Parliament yesterday, shows the level of care for boarding house residents is inferior ...

7. Reform efforts have charities all atwitter
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... from government. The sector’s growth has attracted the regulator’s attention, promoting two key reforms in the May federal budget. The first, a new national commission to oversee the activities of ...

8. More traineeships in Bellambi for people with disability
(News/Media Releases Archive)

...  “Mission Australia’s Feather Weight project will provide valuable work and training opportunities for local people with disability.” The National Disability Strategy sets a ten-year reform plan that ...

9. Health experts call for problem gambling reforms
(Daily News/Blog)

... behind a campaign, jointly launched by Independent Tasmanian MP, Andrew Wilkie and advocacy group, GetUp, to combat attempts to undermine the Federal Government’s planned poker machine reforms. Tonight ...

10. Tackling problem gambling in Australia
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... shortly. These moves are in addition to the progress made at the Council of Australian Government’s Select Council on Gambling Reform today on pre-commitment. Ministers agreed to support the required ...

11. Community Connections (NSW South East)
(Community Services/Community Services)

... This program forms part of the NSW Homelessness Action Plan (HAP) – a plan that sets the direction for reforming the state’s homelessness service system in order to achieve better outcomes for people in ...

12. New website for not-for-profits
(Daily News/Blog)

... format (RTF) and PDF documents outlining broad reform measures such as the establishment of an independent regulator for charities and tailored support for job seekers, as well as a list of...Did you know ...

13. MA welcomes budget focus on disadvantaged areas
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... may be lacking in their lives. “In terms of DSP recipients who have a reasonable capacity to work, we think the budget changes are sensible and balanced. “We have to get over the idea that reforming ...

14. System fails jobless on disability support
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - Newcastle Herald, 10 May 2011 As we prepare for tonight’s Budget, Mission Australia’s CEO Toby Hall says it’s time to take the emotion out of the welfare reform debate and realise the ...

15. Financial skills help steer young people towards a positive future
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... of participants. ANZ developed MoneyMinded in 2003 in consultation with government, community organisations and education experts, including ASIC and the Australian Financial Counselling and Credit Reform ...

16. Shifting the focus of the mental health system
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... care and support the whole person. If Minister Butler is after a template for reform he need only look at his government’s approach to tackling homelessness. This was driven by a three-person council ...

17. Pretend welfare reform will do nothing for jobless
(Daily News/Blog)

Welfare reform is back on the agenda in a big way – or so it seems. Prime Minister Julia Gillard recently stared down colleagues who wanted her to water down tougher penalties for unemployed people who ...

18. MA joins campaign to advance poker machine reform
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... to undermine the Federal Government’s planned poker machine reforms. Clubs Australia recently announced it would spend $20 million on an advertising campaign to have the reforms – announced in an agreement ...

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

... the attention of our key policy and decision makers. We have urged action on a number of fronts, including reforms to social security payments, employment services, and our taxation system. ACOSS will ...

20. GoodStart Childcare Ltd appoints new Chief Executive
(Daily News/Blog)

... occupancy rates and healthy surpluses reinvested back into the business, while government reforms are focusing on improving those all important outcomes for Australia’s children. “The Board is confident ...

21. FAHCSIA release of legal advice on gambling reform
(News/Media Releases Archive)

FAHCSIA Media Release, 1 February 2011  The Australian Government today released legal advice - PDF [1.0MB] on the Commonwealth's power to legislate for important reforms to address problem gambling. ...

22. Opinion - Time for fresh thoughts on welfare reform
(Daily News/Blog)

Eleven years after the last major report into reforming Australia’s welfare system it’s clear we’re still stuck with an approach that doesn’t work – for the country or the individuals and families it’s ...

23. Mission Australia Funding
(Pathways/About Us)

... need for more transparency and smarter regulation in the sector, and worked with the Community Council of Australia to achieve reform. As such, we welcomed the Australian Government’s decision to establish ...