Mission Australia

1. National Youth Survey 2005: Rural and Regional Responses
(Document Downloads)

The differences between young people living in rural/regional Australia and those in metropolitan areas have been highlighted in a new publication based on Mission Australia's 2005 National Youth Survey. ...

2. Our Response to the Commonwealth Gov Discussion Paper - Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity
(Document Downloads)

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 ...

3. Our Submission on Remote and Regional Communities
(Document Downloads)

Addressing the significant and entrenched nature of disadvantage within some regional and remote aboriginal communities requires a multi-layered, long term, community development approach. Such an approach ...

4. Rural and Regional Australia: Change, Challenge and Capacity
(Document Downloads)

... report makes a number of recommendations and calls for a whole of government approach – in co-operation with business and community organisations – to decrease inequality between rural/regional and metropolitan ...

5. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Information
(Community Services/Community Services)

... in metro, regional and remote areas, we work to address training, employment, education, child and families’ needs. We work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in over 50 communities – from ...

6. Mission Australia’s Triple R Services
(Community Services/Community Services)

...  These services operate from NSW and work in many different areas and helps people in metro, regional and rural communities. There are many other activities that Triple R Services are doing in communities, ...

7. About Mission Australia
(Pathways/About Us)

... feet. We are committed to eliminating disadvantage and creating a fairer Australia. With more than 450 services across metropolitan, rural and regional Australia – in every state and territory - we assist ...

8. Mission Australia Funding
(Pathways/About Us)

... places around major and regional cities. Once a person signs up with a face-to-face fundraiser to support Mission Australia, they will receive a phone call within a few days to confirm their ongoing donation ...

9. Ambassadors
(Pathways/About Us)

... a degree in Criminology from Griffith University, and at 21 became the youngest elected regional councillor in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). In 2006 Tania was announced ...

10. Community Services in NSW
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... - financial counselling, gambling counselling, youth financial literacy, and youth gambling counselling. These services operate from NSW and work in many different areas and helps people in metro, regional ...

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

Mission Australia works with communities across metropolitan and regional South Australia to support young people and their families. Here are some of the services we provide in South Australia: Pathways ...

12. Graduate Success - Luke Butcher
(Jobs at Mission Australia/Graduate and Work Experience)

... experience and supervision of a mentor and my services manager I was able to first hand experience the flavour of regional and rural mental health services. Mission Australia offers unique, rewarding experiences ...

13. Making or Changing Your Will
(Donations/Bequests)

... friends to contribute to. Visit a Mission Australia Service Mission Australia has over 450 services across metropolitan, rural and regional Australia offering help to disadvantaged and isolated individuals, ...

14. A fresh approach in the mission to enable refugee and migrants to gain sustainable employment
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... this unique and holistic program has been developed with the Victorian Government’s Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (DIIRD), local business and local youth and employment providers ...

15. When Gambling is No Longer Fun
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... discover their own ways to change and reduce the impacts. Poker machines are far and away the preferred fix of the problem gambler, even more so in rural and regional areas where pubs, clubs and hotels ...

16. Solid start for Community Response Task Force
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... a case for more numbers – particularly in regional areas. “Our financial counsellors – who are mostly based in NSW – are being run off their feet by rising numbers of people coming through their doors. ...

17. Green paper on homelessness is a positive step
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... 150 years, we have been helping change the lives of Australians in need. We have more than 450 services across metropolitan, rural and regional Australia – in every state and territory – and last year ...

18. Campaign Kicks Off to Raise $100,000 for the Homeless
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... in need. We have more than 450 services across metropolitan, rural and regional Australia – in every state and territory – and last year assisted more than 300,000 people. We are committed to eliminating ...

19. Work for dole team graduates after giving new life to Kaurna Plains pre-school
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Ridley Road, Elizabeth on Wednesday, November 21 at 2.00pm, to be attended by Federal Member for Wakefield, David Fawcett. Mission Australia Acting Regional Manager (SA/NT/WA) Julian Roffe said the six-month ...

20. Mission Australia congratulates Thomas Spottswood Australian Apprentice of the Year
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... study and work. To be eligible for the Australian Apprentice of the Year Award, Thomas first had to win his Queensland regional and state divisions. After completing an apprenticeship in Engineering ...

21. Affordable housing crisis a big issue for regional areas like Port Pirie, Port Augusta and Whyalla.
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Leading community services group Mission Australia says concerns about homelessness and housing affordability are not confined to cities, but are urgent issues also in booming rural and regional areas ...

22. Backyard footy competition takes game back to grassroots in SA's mid north
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... service programs in rural and regional South Australia, was pleased to support such an innovative program to help strengthen the capacity of a diverse regional community. “These are the sorts of initiatives ...

23. New support on mental health issues for individuals, families in Whyalla region
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Australia. Mission Australia is providing intensive one-to-one support under the Personal Helpers and Mentors (PHAM) program at its Whyalla regional office to local people aged 16 years and over whose ...

24. Hunter Legal Service assisting the Disadvantaged
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... socially disadvantaged with a particular focus on people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Since November 2006, the service has assisted almost 40 clients from regional clinic locations as ...

25. 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 ...