Subject: INFORM 24
February, 2012, Homelessness Australia.
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CAMPAIGNS ACOSS: $35 a day is not
enough! Lift paltry allowances
and help people into paid work Join our Campaign to raise
unemployment allowances such as Newstart and demand better targeted jobs
assistance Twitter @ACOSS on
hashtag #ImNoBludger. Australians for
Affordable Housing Nearly one in ten Australian
households are in housing stress. A startling 460,000 households spend more
than half of their income on housing costs. It’s time to make some noise
about housing affordability. Website.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/housingstressed
Latest media: - Queensland’s Housing Stress: Top 5
housing stressed regions revealed - 450,000 renters deserve better Activism 101: 16 Striking
Campaigns for the Cause to End Violence Against Women End Youth Homelessness With Virgin Unite, sign the Petition. See the Partners.
Watch the Media.
Twitter: @EYHAustralia, Facebook. EVENTS 2012 ASU Training on Negotiating Domestic Violence
Clauses Australasian Housing
Institute Professional development portal February 2nd
World Conference of Women’s Shelters Scholarship
applications are now open. Washington DC, 27 February - 1 March, website. CSW 56 NGOs
that are accredited to and in good standing with the United Nations Economic and Social Council,
may designate representatives to attend the annual sessions of the Commission
on the Status of Women. New York, 27 February to 9 March, website. March Housing
economics for non-economists' lecture series From Shelter NSW, 4
lectures, Sydney, website. UN Women
Australia Forum Women’s economic
empowerment: an Australian perspective. A panel discussion on gender issues
in Australia, Canberra, 6 March, National Press Club. International
Women’s Day Worldwide,
8 March, website. Identifying
the Hidden Disaster: The First Australian Conference on Natural Disasters and
Family Violence Melbourne,
9 March, website. Concentrations
of social disadvantage in Australia's cities: key questions and hypotheses Canberra,
14 March, website. Housing and
social wellbeing: new AHURI research Melbourne,
15 March, website. Seeking
asylum in Australia - mental health and human rights of children and families Seminar,
Melbourne,15 March, website. Young
People from refugee & migrant backgrounds and homelessness forum Multicultural
Youth Affairs Network of NSW is hosting this forum, Sydney, 20 March, website. Housing
First Partners' Conference 2012 New
Orleans, 21 - 23 March, website. ACOSS Media
Forum Sydney,
28 March, website. New
approaches to Indigenous housing This AHURI
Housing Research Seminar will
present the findings from two new AHURI research projects. Adelaide,
28 March, website. ACOSS
National Conference The
ACOSS Annual Conference is a premier national event for policy-makers,
researchers and those engaged in social services or advocacy in Sydney, 29 - 30 March, website. April The Big
Issue Street Football Festival The
festival with corporate, government, junior events & National
Championships of The Big Issue’s Community Street Soccer Program. Cockle
Bay, Sydney, April 11 - 22, website. The
inaugural Third Sector Expo Free-to-attend
two day professional development conference and exhibition, Melbourne, 16 - 17 April, website. Homelessness
Research Conference From
AHURI and RMIT University, Melbourne, 19 - 20 April, website. May The Connecting Up
Conference Sydney,
1 - 3 May, website. The
Australian Regional Women Leaders
Convention 2012 A
national event for regional and rural women, Sydney, 3 - 4 May, website. CLCNSW
State Conference 2012 Sydney,
8 - 10 May, website. Homelessness NSW
Conference Getting
Results, Newcastle,
14 - 15 May, website. ACTU
Congress Sydney, 15 – 17 May, website. National
Rural and Regional Law and Justice Conference Coffs
Harbour, 18 - 20 May, website. Specialist
Homelessness Services Conference Leading
the Road Home, Perth, 28 - 29 May, website. 7th Young
Children Without Homes National Conference The
only national conference that focuses exclusively on young children and their
families who experience homelessness, Boston, USA, 30 May, website. June Shelter NSW
Conference: Explorations
in nonprofit housing: models vicissitudes resurgence Sydney, 14 June, website. Australian
Suicide Prevention Conference Cairns,
13 - 15 June, website. International Women's
Conference: Cairns,
14 June, website. July Australasian
Conference of Child Trauma Gold
Coast, 4 - 6 July, website. Missing
People: Issues and Implications Conference Brisbane,
5 - 6 July, website. 12th
Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference Melbourne,
25 – 27 July, website. 3rd
National Affordable Housing Exchange Australia
Technology Park, Sydney, 26 - 27 July, website. August 8th World
Congress on Active Ageing Abstract
deadline is 31 Jan. Glasgow, Scotland, 13 - 17 August, website. September 7th National Homelessness
Conference: “Making It Home” the real issues
in homelessness Homelessness Australia’s 7th
conference, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 5 - 7 September 2012, website. October The 21st
Century Approach to Mental Health Perth, 17 - 19 October, website. November The National Housing
Conference Brisbane, 30 October – 2
November 2012, website. 3rd International
Conference on Survivors of Rape Galway, West Ireland, 9 - 10 November, website. No To Violence (NTV)
Conference Melbourne, 14 - 16 November, website. WEEKS & DAYS 2012 Sector related awareness
days and weeks see webpage. Youth week
is 13 - 22 April Youth Homelessness Matters Day (YHMD)
day is 18 April Monday
6 August – Sunday 12 August POSITIONS VACANT Housing & Homelessness
Services jobs in Australia Part-time GPs required (ongoing) Mobile GP is a
non-government agency providing health services to the homeless and
marginalised. For further information, please call Stephanie Dunstan on 0457
925 357 or email steph.dunstan@mobilegp.org.au THANKS to... The journalists and media who write and report on the
homelessness, housing and support sector. -ACOSS
Media Monitor fernando@acoss.org.au -Australian Domestic and Family Violence
Clearinghouse -Australian
Institute of Family Studies -The National Tenant Support
Network (National TSN) Email
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NATIONAL NEWS Rental discrimination With the rental crisis
in our cities getting worse, agents and landlords have made a hit-list of the
first people dismissed as potential tenants. Today Tonight, 23 February. Review calls for school spending
overhaul ABC News, 20 February,
Breakfast. SMH, 24 February. Super tax benefits help rich get
richer and leave poor with nothing, says ACOSS Why Australia’s ranking as one
of the world’s most expensive cities means next to nothing Pension age would rise under
business council's austerity plan Union push for uniform unfair
dismissal laws Minister for Housing and
Homelessness The Hon Robert McClelland MP,
media releases. Minister for Families, Community
Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Minister for Disability Reform The Hon Jenny Macklin MP, media
releases. Minister for Community Services,
Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development and Minister for
the Status of Women The Hon Julie Collins MP, media
releases. Parliamentary Secretary for
Disabilities and Carers Senator the Hon Jan McLucas, media
releases. ACT Mirvac to focus on medium
density housing Property developer
Mirvac Group has returned to first half profitability, adding it will
continue to cater for an increasing demand for medium-density housing. The Canberra Times, 21 February. NSW Mental health patients lose out under new funding plan Mental health patients would be seriously
disadvantaged under hospital funding arrangements to be introduced in July,
health authorities have warned. SMH, 23 February. Campbelltown Council to report on boarding houses in area Staff from Campbelltown Council are preparing a
report on the regulation of boarding houses in the Campbelltown local
government area. Macarthur Chronicle, 20 February. Care Connect (Ongoing) Service to help At Risk of Homelessness in Inner
West Sydney. Care Connect’s Community Options Program
(Housing Support) provides short-term to medium-term support services to
people who are at risk of being homeless or being marginally housed. The
Program has vacancies now. Please contact Lisa Clarke, Intake Case Manager on
(02) 9830 8903 or lallen@careconnect.org.au.
NT Aboriginal leaders reject NT
intervention Aboriginal community
leaders and advocates have rejected federal government plans to extend the
Howard-era Northern Territory intervention policy, saying they haven't
been properly consulted. SMH, 21 February. Inquiry investigates rate of
child suicide in NT Northern Territory
leaders are warning that silence is no longer an option to deal with the
rising rates of child suicide. ABC News, 21 February. NT intervention hearings hit
road Aboriginal community
groups are expected to voice their opposition to the federal government's
planned next phase of the Northern Territory intervention, during
parliamentary hearings this week. SMH, 20 February. Qld Queensland town struggling after
major employer shuts its doors The town of Childers in
southern Queensland is feeling the impact of the collapse of its biggest
employer, tomato grower SP Exports. Bush Telegraph, 22 February. FIFO inquiry Dysart residents hope
today's Moranbah sitting of the federal inquiry of fly in, fly out workforce
practices is not simply a token gesture to satisfy the growing concerns of a
community in crisis. Central Queensland News, 22
February. Tas Tough ask but a gran job Grandmother Gaylene
Farnell has been looking after her granddaughter Jasmine, 14, since she was a
baby. The Mercury, 24 February. Vic Debt collectors demand $38,000
from tenants Hawthorn pair Ursula
Noye and Ben Corbett were horrified to learn of a little-known clause in the Land
Tax Act letting the State Revenue Office chase them for the money. Herald Sun, 24 February. No longer home sweet home House prices in
Melbourne have increased 147 per cent in the past decade, and the cost of
renting continues to soar. Melissa Cunningham spoke to one family who found
themselves unable to pay for a roof over their heads. Casey Weekly, 23 February. Homeless flood into hospitals Emergency departments
are struggling to cope with growing numbers of homeless people seeking
shelter and assistance because of a lack of emergency accommodation. The Age, 22 February.
Council to Homeless Persons Letter to the Editor. Park closure highlights housing
pressure The closure of a
Bairnsdale caravan park has highlighted housing pressure and the long waiting
list for public housing in East Gippsland. ABC Gippsland, 21 February. Rental prices in inner north on
up, and up, and up Thornbury renters have
felt the pinch of rent increases more than most other places in Australia
over the past 12 months, according to a new survey. The Melbourne Times Weekly, 21
February. WA Wages fall for first time in a
decade Average wages across WA
have fallen for the first time in more than a decade in a sign the big pay
rises in the mining sector are yet to filter through to the rest of the
workforce. The West, 24 February. Broome stoush over hostel land
continues Broome Shire President
Graeme Campbell has demanded answers from the Department of Housing after it
pulled out of negotiations to build an Aboriginal itinerant hostel in the
town after years of wrangling over a site. The West, 20 February. INTERNATIONAL NEWS Canada Law and disorder: What Bill C-10
could mean for Canada’s native people By his own reckoning,
John Findlay has spent 25 of the past 33 years in jail. The Globe and Mail, 17 February. NZ Housing NZ axes home rental help Housing New Zealand is
axing a service which has worked with other agencies to find private rental
homes for people who can't get state houses. NZ Herald, 20 February. Protesting state housing tenants
to move on Several people
barricaded themselves into a vacant house at 25 Silverton Avenue, Glenn
Innes, on Saturday in protest against plans to move them on. TV NZ, 20 February. USA Homeless
people treated as criminals in America Coshocton Tribune, 18 February. America's
Poorest People Running Out Of Places To Live: Study SURVEY Risk Factors in Homelessness Programs and Interventions The S.W.A.S.H (Sydney Women and Sexual Health) Survey 2012 Between Sunday 12 - Sunday 26
February 2012, website. Help shape the Victorian
Whole-of-Government Alcohol and Drug Strategy forum and survey. Survey of household energy use and affordability GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS/FUNDS Australian Scholarships Foundation Mental Health Conference Funding Program The Australian Government Department of Health
and Ageing funds the Mental Health Conference Funding (MHCF) Program to
provide limited financial assistance to support conferences and events in
related areas. Website. Queensland Alliance for Mental Health Resilient Places Project:
Micro-grants, round 1. |
RESOURCES 6291.0.55.001 - Labour Force,
Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery, Jan 2012 6302.0 Average Weekly Earnings,
Australia, Nov 2011 ACOSS 2012 Media Internship
Program now open! Quicker action needed to Close the
Gap Stronger futures requires stronger
consultation Modelling the impacts of the Henry
Review tax recommendations on housing supply and affordability The role of ‘assertive outreach’ in addressing
primary homelessness Children’s exposure to domestic
violence in Australia The many facets of shame in
intimate partner sexual violence Life around here: Community, work
and family life in three Australian communities Comorbidity of mental disorders
and physical conditions 2007 Juvenile detention population in
Australia 2011 Family Violence and Commonwealth
Laws Report Position Paper on Homelessness of
Asylum Seekers Living in the Community Destitute and Uncertain: the
reality of seeking asylum in Australia AUDIO Breakfast Grey Army for Queensland’s
Recovery Life Matters - Self Harm: How can we better
understand and respond -Teenagers and Sexually Transmitted
Diseases Australian Homelessness
Clearinghouse BLOG The BarrierFreeLiving Daily Blog CMY’s Sector Development and
Policy team has produced a series of five Good Practice Guides A guide to Australian Government
payments Education Tax Refund The Education Tax Refund provides
up to 50% back on a range of children's education expenses FACEBOOK Homeless No More (Aus) Homeless Directions
(Aus) Another European Parliament Call
for an EU Homelessness Strategy: When Will EU Action Come? A New Ten Year Plan for Mental
Health PDF printable version of A New Ten Year Plan for Mental Health (PDF
17 KB) The Australian Government is seeking public
opinion on the draft Ten Year Roadmap for National Mental Health Reform (PDF
2156 KB) (the Roadmap) via an online survey INTERNET Cloud Computing Explained Australian Businesswomen’s Network Flick’s Housing & Homelessness
Blog Psychosis in Indigenous
populations of Cape York and the Torres Strait Mental health of Indigenous
Australians: a review of findings from community surveys Targeted primary care-based mental
health services for young Australians National Alliance to End Homelessness
(USA) The State of Homelessness in
America 2012 The Emergency Solutions Grant,
Recommendations From The Alliance National Coalition for the Homeless (USA) Hate Crimes against the Homeless National Housing Supply Council The National Housing Supply Council's 3rd State
of Supply Report was released in December 2011
All babies count: prevention and
protection for vulnerable babies Mental Health and Work, Sick on
the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work Equity and Quality in Education -
Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools Create Your Better Life Index,
an interactive website Divided We Stand: Why Inequality
Keeps Rising Homelessness requires focus and
commitment Parity 2012 Parity publication commences in April: Philanthropic, Corporate and Private Sector Responses to Homelessness
edition. May edition is on: Policing Homelessness. Contact
Noel Murray: parity@chp.org.au
Back issues. Parliament of Australia Inquiry into the prevention and
treatment of problem gambling Relationships key to creating
sustainable opportunities Shelter NSW Dwelling with visual and acoustic
privacy SOCIAL MEDIA How to be Ethical in Social Media Australian BusinessWomen’s Network Claire Wardle on Social Media, 10
February. The BIG ISSUE The Treasury (Aus) Consultation Paper - A Definition
of Charity The eight Millennium Development Goals Progress of the World’s Women,
factsheet University of Calgary (Can) Housing Subsidies and
Homelessness: a simple idea USICH (USA) Sharing the evidence: Preventing
violence against women Victorian Homelessness Action Plan
2011-2015 VIDEO/FILM Inception of the London
Pathway Good Samaritan Shelter Night Of Awareness Promo WEBSITES
etc @FAREAustralia http://www.londonpathway.org.uk/ |
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