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CAMPAIGNS
Australians for Affordable
Housing
Nearly one in ten
Australia 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
St Vincent de Paul Doorknock in Feb.
EVENTS 2012
February
Bat for YouthCARE
Prime Minister’s XI breakfast, Canberra, 3
February, website.
CEO Cookoff
Sydney, 6 February, website.
2012 National Conference
on Ending Family and Youth Homelessness
Los Angeles, 9 - 10 February, website.
6th Australasian Housing
Researchers' Conference 2012
Housing in an Era of Risk and Crisis, Adelaide, 8
- 10 February, website.
After Homosexual: The
Legacies of Gay Liberation
Melbourne, 2 - 4 February, website.
Policy Research Methods
Masterclass 2012
Promoting Professional Research, Consultation and
Communication Skills for Policy Officers to Develop Robust Evidence-Based
Policy. Canberra, 7 - 9 February, website.
3rd Australasian Ethics
Network (AEN) Conference
Brisbane, 16 - 17 February, website.
Pathways through the maze
National Hoarding and Squalor Conference, Sydney,
21 - 22 February, website.
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
Identifying the Hidden
Disaster: The First Australian Conference on Natural Disasters and Family
Violence
Melbourne, 9 March, website.
ACOSS Media Forum
Sydney, 28 March, website.
ACOSS National Conference
Sydney, 29 - 30 March, website.
Pathways to Housing &
DESC Present the First:
Housing First Partners'
Conference 2012
New Orleans, 21 - 23 March, website.
April
Homelessness Research
Conference
From the Australian Housing and Urban Research
Institute (AHURI) and RMIT University, Melbourne, 19 - 20 April, website.
May
The Connecting Up Conference
Sydney, 1-3 May, website.
CLCNSW State Conference
2012
Sydney, 8 - 10 May, website.
ACTU Congress
Sydney, 15 – 17 May, website.
National Rural and
Regional Law and Justice Conference
Coffs Harbour, 18 - 20 May, website.
June
Australian Suicide
Prevention Conference
Cairns, 13 - 15 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.
November
The National Housing Conference
Brisbane, 30 October –
2 November 2012, website.
WEEKS & DAYS 2012
Sector related
awareness days and weeks see attached or webpage.
Youth week is 13 - 22 April and Youth Homelessness Matters Day (YHMD)
day is 18 April
Homeless Persons Week 2012
Monday 6 August – Sunday 12 August
SOCIAL MEDIA (Australian
and international)
Where Do Families Go After Foreclosure?
(webinar: Fri,
27 Jan, 2012 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM AEDT)
Social Media for Social Good: A
How-To Webinar for Nonprofits
Homeless A to Z (website)
The Hawaii State Coalition Against
Domestic Violence (website)
POSITIONS
VACANT
Housing & Homelessness
Services jobs in Australia
Home Is Where My Heart Is 2012
Be part of one of @yacwa most successful and exciting projects as a volunteer
Intern, website.
Equality Rights Alliance: Program
Manager
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.
The National Tenant Support
Network
(National TSN) is an independent, unincorporated not-for-profit initiative
delivering a range of services to social and affordable rental housing stakeholders
throughout Australia and New Zealand. Email
to subscribe: TSN@thenexus.org.au
-Australian Domestic and Family Violence
Clearinghouse
-Australian
Institute of Family Studies
-Australian
Policy Online
-Breakfast Politics
-Twitter and Facebook just
for existing!
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NATIONAL NEWS
Zero jobs growth worst in 20
years, The Australian, 20 Jan.
Easy access triggers explosion in
online gambling – study, SMH , 18 Jan.
Retailers brace for job cuts, SMH,
18 Jan.
Mental health plan 'too vague' to
be of use, The Australian, 17 Jan. See plan here.
Social inclusion - what is it good
for?, Parliamentary Flag Post, 17 Jan.
Labour pains: when 'working
families' don't work, SMH, 15 Jan.
The grim legacy of compassion, The
Australian, 14 Jan.
Year of job pain to hit banks,
shops, SMH, 14 Jan.
Social inclusion: we need smarter policy, The Drum,
13 Jan.
Canadian pokies scheme offers lessons for Australia,
ABC PM, 13 Jan.
David Cappo defends social
inclusion, The Australian, 9 Jan.
Lifting the super guarantee isn’t
good for everybody,
The Conversation, 9 Jan.
Cooking tuition, parenting classes
and budgeting advice in 'tough love' welfare trial for teen parents, The
Telegraph, 9 Jan.
Charity recruits gay couples as
foster carers, SMH, 9 Jan.
Extra super payments a burden on
those under 50, SMH, 9 Jan.
Call for compassion in program to
move young mothers off welfare, SMH, 4 Jan.
Cut superannuation tax breaks,
says ACTU, The Australian, 3 Jan.
Let’s get drunk on confidence!,
YWCA.
Family Tax Benefits extended to
students over 16, ABC, 2 Jan.
Medical services fail to meet
demands of older people, SMH, 27 Dec.
Australia in the grip of a jobs
crisis, The Telegraph, 22 Dec.
New reality: owing more than you
own, The Age, 20 Dec.
Youth unemployment: a two-speed
divide?, The Conversation, 19 Dec.
Minister for Housing and
Homelessness
The Honourable Robert McClelland
MP, media releases
Minister for Families, Community
Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Minister for Disability Reform
The Honourable 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
ACT child abuse claims increase by
900, The Canberra Times, 20 Jan.
Cutting charity bins 'may stop
dumping', ABC, 17 Jan.
Possible compromise on pokies
reform, ABC, 17 Jan.
Smith Family appeal to cover
school costs, The Canberra Times, 14 Jan.
Overhaul for youth homeless
services, ABC, 22 Dec.
New range of services to target
young homeless, The Canberra Times, The Canberra Times, 22 Dec.
Women more likely to seek help for
homelessness: report, The Canberra Times, 21 Dec.
Persistent rain delays new homes,
The Canberra Times, 20 Dec.
Patients going public, The
Canberra Times, 20 Dec.
NSW
Wary home buyers lock in
fixed-rates, SMH 17 Jan.
Foreclosures rise as more
borrowers fail to repay, SMH, 3 Jan.
Housing shortage bites as supply
fails to keep up, SMH, 21 Dec.
Patients want more choice, says
mental health survey, SMH, 20 Dec.
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
Darwin most expensive capital city
rent, NT News, 20 Jan.
School trial embraces realities of
Top End, ABC, 17 Jan.
High-tech bid to save ancient Top
End language, ABC, 17 Jan.
Darwin property price spike may
not happen, ABC, 16 Jan.
Fears for children's safety in
violent outback feud, ABC AM, 12 Jan.
Query over Govt plan to extend NT
scheme, The Canberra Times, 7 Jan.
Housing stimulation scheme
extended, NT News, 30 Dec.
Welfare stick fails for NT
schools, SMH, 22 Dec.
Qld
Recession fears after Australia's
job losses the worst in 20 years, Courier Mail, 20 Jan.
SA
Job vacancies fall in SA, ABC, 16
Jan.
Daily battle for so many families,
Adelaide Now, 19 Dec.
Tas
Tassie tops jobless list, The
Mercury, 20 Jan.
Pokie reform pressure, ABC, 15
Jan.
Housing sector predicts bleak
year, ABC, 11 Jan.
Mum's plight too common, The
Mercury, 20 Dec.
Vic
More bleak times ahead for
housing, SMH, 8 Jan.
Homeless hundreds, Geelong
Advertiser, 22 Dec.
WA
Youth mental health claims soar,
The West Australian, 20 Jan.
Warning over maternity shortages,
The West Australian, 17 Jan.
Push for detainees to return to
school, ABC Goldfields, 13 Jan.
Vinnies hopes for direct donations
in lieu of gifts, The West Australian, 20 Dec.
Police take 100 children off
streets in crackdown, The West Australian, 20 Dec.
Call for better planning for
Aboriginal homeless, ABC Goldfields, 20 Dec.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
International news will
resume next week.
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RESOURCES
(Research,
publications, audio and vision)
ABS
4102.0 - Australian Social Trends,
Dec 2011
6541.0.30.001 - Microdata: Income
and Housing, Basic and Expanded CURF on CD-ROM/RADL, Australia, 2007-08
5609.0 - Housing Finance,
Australia, Nov 2011
5671.0 - Lending Finance,
Australia, Nov 2011
ACOSS
2012-13 Budget Priority Statement,
Dec.
ADFVC
What’s new
AHRC
Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected
of people smuggling offences who say that they are children, due 3 Feb.
AHURI
Housing finance after the GFC, 7
Dec.
AIFS
Results of the Clearinghouse Consolidation Survey.
AIHW
Child protection Australia 2010–11
Australia's welfare 2011
Tell us
what you think about Australia's welfare 2011—complete our two-minute survey!
Australia's mothers and babies
2009, released 21 Dec.
Calgary
Homeless Foundation
FaHCSIA
2012 FaHCSIA Ministers
Better Start KPMG report, on
review of evidence for the effectiveness of early intervention for children
with a range of developmental disabilities,19 Dec.
Current Funding:
Families & Children
Indigenous Australians
People with Disability
FEANTSA
European Journal of Homelessness: Volume 5.2, December 2011
"Problem of Homelessness in Poland - Some
Aspects: Diagnosis of the Research Team" with participation of FEANTSA
members. In English.
Health and Ageing
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.
National Alliance to End Homelessness
(USA)
Must read blog from Iain de Jong
Prevention Targeting 101
National Housing Supply
Council
The National Housing Supply Council's 3rd State of
Supply Report was released in December 2011
Salvation
Army & Swinburne Institute
No Home at the End of the
Road? A survey of single women over 40 years of age who do not
believe they will own their
housing outright at retirement.
The Centre for Independent Studies
Do Not Damage and Disturb: On
Child Protection Failures and the Pressure on Out-of-Home Care in Australia
The Homeless Hub (Can)
Homelessness curriculum for
teachers and students
The Treasury (AUS)
Consultation Paper - A Definition
of Charity
United Nations
Promotion and protection of human
rights: human
rights questions, including
alternative approaches
for improving the effective
enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms
UN
Women
Progress of the World’s Women,
factsheet
Urban
Institute (USA)
Vulnerability, Risk, and the Transition to Adulthood.
Vic Health
Sharing the evidence: Preventing
violence against women
Victoria
Online
Victorian Homelessness Action Plan
2011-2015
AUDIO
Welfare panel, ABC Breakfast, 17
Jan.
Disability pensions, ABC
Breakfast, feat ACOSS, 2 Jan.
Some Life Matters stories
repeated from 2011:
-Surviving on Newstart, ABC Life
Matters, 20 Sept.
-Barriers to older workers, ABC Life
Matters, 13 Dec.
-Lisa Pryor on recreational drugs,
ABC Life Matters, 16 Jan.
-Bee Orsini on youth homelessness,
ABC Life Matters, 16 Jan.
-Motherhood - not coping, ABC, Life
Matters, 12 Jan.
-Andrew Robb: Black dog daze, ABC
Life Matters, 10 Jan.
-Gay marriage: Geoff and Nathan
Thomas, ABC Life Matters, 9 Jan.
-Youth mentoring, ABC Life Matters,
9 Jan.
VIDEO/FILM
Aboriginal Poverty in Canada, You Tube
Child poverty: why social
franchising is a giant step in the right direction, You Tube
“How to Stop Homelessness: An Instructional Video.”
FUNDING
New funding round for
Indigenous
Broadcasting
Program now open
The 2012-2013 funding round for
the Indigenous Broadcasting Program has opened and closes 3 February 2012.
GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS
Australian Scholarships Foundation
Family and Relationships Services Australia
Family Dispute Resolution Scholarships
FRSA has secured funding from the Attorney-General’s Department to administer
a modest scholarship scheme which aims to increase opportunities for people
from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and culturally and linguistically diverse
backgrounds to undertake training to obtain the Vocational Graduate Diploma
in Family Dispute Resolution (FDR).
Queensland Alliance for Mental Health
Resilient Places Project:
Micro-grants, round 1.
Victorian Women’s Governance
Scholarship Program 2012. This program is aimed at increasing the skills and
qualifications of women on not-for-profit boards and committees.
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