Mission Australia

1. Our Response to Commonwealth Gov Green Paper - Which way home
(Document Downloads)

... work across all levels of Government and promote local responses under a national strategy. Our approach is informed by practise wisdom and backed up by extensive national and international research.  ...

2. Our Response to Commonwealth Gov Discussion Paper - National Mental Health & Disability Employment
(Document Downloads)

Mission Australia welcomes the discussion paper in the context of the Commonwealth’s broader social inclusion agenda, particularly given the strong links between poverty, unemployment, social exclusion ...

3. Our Response to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Training Inquiry
(Document Downloads)

Mission Australia welcomes the Inquiry into successful youth transitions. Any efforts to enhance the successful transition of disadvantaged young people need to include integrated and holistic responses ...

4. Youth Employment Stategy (YES)
(Document Downloads)

... and a raft of new initiatives and policies to address the causes of Australia’s youth unemployment problem. The Youth Employment Strategy (YES) report says concerted action is needed to engage thousands ...

5. Personal Helpers and Mentors Program
(Community Services/Community Services)

The Personal Helpers and Mentors Program is a federally funded program that is part of the COAG (Council of Australian Governments) mental health strategy. The Personal Helpers and Mentors Program aims ...

6. National Skilled Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

...  A Terms of Reference for the project will be developed with volunteer by the CS Operations Manager and the Strategy and Development Manager. Once established the project will require independent initial ...

7. We must act now to save a lost generation
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Working package but we need something that has a stronger youth focus.” Australia should build a national mentoring strategy into its youth agenda. Mission Australia has good evidence about what works ...

8. Annual Review
(Pathways/About Us)

... and a business strategy for covering one-, three, five and 10-year plans We launched our Integrated Youth Services Project in the Northern Territory – a three-year partnership with the Federal Government ...

9. Sustainability
(Pathways/About Us)

... strategy and established a sustainability steering group to identify and coordinate initiatives Rolled out a sustainability pilot program in Queensland Made a commitment to measure our national environmental ...

10. VIC Volunteer Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... in Victoria. A Terms of Reference for the project will be developed with volunteer by the CS Operations Manager and the Strategy and Development Manager. Once established the project will require ...

11. Mission Australia launches Reconciliation Action Plan
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Mission Australia has become the first major Australian welfare organisation to develop a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) – a strategy for how it intends to contribute to reducing the gap in living standards ...

12. Missionbeat Bikes hit the road
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... service is part of a much larger Mission Australia strategy to ensure people sleeping rough can receive all the different types of support they need to break the cycle of homelessness permanently,” said ...

13. AMP Foundation
(Partnerships/Major Corporate and Community Partners)

... a national adviser for aboriginal affairs to build a larger national strategy within the organisation, aimed at developing culturally effective services and policies for aboriginal programs and issues. ...

14. Mission Australia welcomes Homelessness Revolution
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Mission Australia – one of the largest providers of services to homeless people in the country – has welcomed the Rudd Government’s White Paper strategy on tackling homelessness calling it “the most significant ...

15. Paid maternity leave battle reignited
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... children, Mission Australia sees the role of the mother or care giver as one of the most important jobs in Australia. Paid maternity leave is a key component of a wider strategy to address Australia's ...

16. Homeless youth on the rise in Tasmania
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Government’s current Green Paper review of its homeless strategy. “Mission Australia looks forward to the development of the Green Paper which will result in a final strategy – or White Paper – being ...

17. Homelessness among the elderly - The hidden face of Homelessness in Australia
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... homeless statistics...   ...She said she was hopeful the Federal Government's White Paper strategy on homelessness would address the issue when released in September. “Older homeless Australians ...

18. Migrants and refugees give back to Australia
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... countries. Of 509 people volunteering several hours per week at Mission Australia’s Home Tutor and Enhancement Program and the Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy (IHSS)Volunteer Coordination ...

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

Mission Australia has welcomed the National Youth Commission’s report into youth homelessness and supported its call for establishing a National Homelessness Strategy along with a range of other measures ...

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

... snapshot sheds light on the day to day experiences of Australians in need and has led to calls for a national strategy to tackle poverty. It also proposes measuring poverty based on what the community ...

21. Australia needs national uniformity on early childhood education and support
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... in others. Mission Australia’s CEO, Toby Hall, said Australian early childhood policy was “crying out” for a nationally consistent and holistic strategy that rolled out universal education, intervention ...

22. More homeless services needed in Tasmania
(News/Media Releases Archive)

One of Australia’s leading community service organisations, Mission Australia, has called for more homeless services and transitional housing in Tasmania as well as a national housing strategy to tackle ...

23. Don’t forget homeless in housing affordability debate
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... for Australia to develop a national housing strategy. Mission Australia launched the campaign in the wake of a United Nations Human Rights Council report that declared Australia was in the grip of a ...

24. WA’s booming housing market drives 30% increase in homeless families
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Housing Strategy which will create a nationwide plan to, among other things, create more affordable housing, more public housing, and boost support services to help us tackle the rising numbers of homeless ...

25. Increased rents create greater risk of homelessness
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... again where I’m forced back on the streets,” Tracey said. The Queensland Government’s recently launched Housing Affordability Strategy has injected funds to increase public housing in Queensland. “That’s ...