The chances of finding employment are “seriously limited” for those currently living on welfare, according to major Church providers of social services…
The National Director of UnitingCare Australia and one of Australia's leading social justice advocates, Lin Hatfield Dodds has been appointed the new Chair of the…
UnitingCare Australia said that the changes in aged care funding by the Federal Government will reduce the ability of aged care providers to provide quality care to older…
Major welfare peak bodies and organisations have described the Federal Budget as promising, fair and a ‘Robin Hood” style approach to fiscal management…
The Gillard Government has today announced a $3.7 billion overhaul to the aged care system.
In what the Minister for Ageing, Mark Butler, has called the “most sweeping…
Australia is set to get a National Disability Insurance Scheme following the Gillard Government’s release of the Productivity Commission’s report into…
Australian welfare agencies have called on the Government to provide greater support for long-term unemployed people looking to enter the workforce, following…
The UnitingCare Christmas appeal Operation Santa has described 2010 as one of the toughest for the agency and sent out an urgent request for more gift donations.
The organisations…
UnitingCare Australia has called for an urgent Ministerial taskforce to resolve outstanding issues in both the Henry Tax Review and the Government’s response to that…