Staff Reporter, Friday, 1st July 2011 -
With Australians aged 55 and over making up almost 20% of the nation’s homeless people, the demand for social housing for older Australians is expected to double by 2028, according…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 16th June 2011 -
There will be some strange bedfellows across the nation overnight as leading CEOs and a few interlopers take part in the 2011 Vinnies CEO Sleepout.
The country’s top bosses…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 28th April 2011 -
Small Not for Profit organisations assisting the homeless across Australia will benefit from a campaign that sees micro-donations as life savers.
StreetSmart Australia has announced…
Lina Caneva, Monday, 28th March 2011 - The peak body for the community and social welfare sector, ACOSS, says it will use its 2011 National Conference in Melbourne this week to illustrate the worsening plight of disadvantaged…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 10th March 2011 -
With much of the political and media focus on the serious of natural disasters in Australia and neighbouring New Zealand in recent times, the worsening crisis in Australia’s…
Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th January 2011 -
The Federal Government has launched a $5 million research project to better understand why people become homeless in Australia.
Billed as the most comprehensive research undertaken…
Staff Reporter, Friday, 14th January 2011 -
As fears grow that some flood victims may never be found, homelessness support organisation, StreetSmart is calling for donations to help homeless people in flood effected…
Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 15th December 2010 -
New research into trauma and homelessness uses ‘biographies of violence’ to understand how homeless people manage and survive repeated episodes of violence throughout their lives.…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 9th December 2010 -
A new strategic partnership between Westpac and Mission Australia is set to address family homelessness and help deliver more affordable housing across Australia over the next…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 23rd September 2010 -
Six new flagship projects to reduce homelessness form the centrepiece of a new $42 million Victorian Government’s strategy announced by Premier, John Brumby.
Announcing…
Staff Reporter, Friday, 27th August 2010 -
With 15,000 living on the streets, homelessness is still a critical issue for Melbourne, according to Swinburne University’s Associate Professor David MacKenzie.
Speaking…