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That was the message from Narelle Clay, AM, Chairperson of Homelessness Australia at the opening of the 6th National Homelessness Conference 'Many Ways Home. Towards Ending Homelessness by 2020', being held in Brisbane, 2nd and 3rd September. 

Sydney property group, GPT, is to serve up a Food Recovery Program in a partnership with Parramatta Mission to provide up to one million meals a year for those facing hardship in Western Sydney. Read more.

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 at the ‘Melbourne’s Road Home Forum’, organised by the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, Professor MacKenzie says the type of person sleeping rough has changed. Read more.

The Australian Institute of health and Welfare (AIHW) has run the National Data Collection Agency (NDCA) for homelessness in Australia. The AIHW has been asked to develop a new data collection for homelessness - the Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) collection, with a 'go live' date of July 2011.

Put 9 August 2011 in your organisational diary now. That's Census night, the opportunity to make sure that Australia gets the best information it can about homelessness at the national level to build the evidence base from which to plan national, state and local policies and more importantly for services to plan at the front line. To find out more about how you/your organisation can help contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.