New in the Site

The group of men who have been living in the grounds of the Bondi Pavilion in Sydney, some for as long as 8 years, have sworn to appeal against a decision supporting Waverly Council's actions to have them re-located into public housing. They have 14 days to leave or seek special leave to apply to the High Court.

In June 2005, the Queensland Government announced funding of $235.5 million over four years to develop a coordinated response to homelessness and public intoxication under the Responding to Homelessness Strategy (the Strategy).

This 2008 report presents the findings of the Place-Based Network Analysis and Case Study evaluation that examined the impact of the Strategy on levels of integration and service coordination across three selected sites: Townsville, Gold Coast and Brisbane.

Living on the edge: social and emotional wellbeing risk and protective factors for serious psychological distress among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is a new paper from the  Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH).

This paper, prepared by the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA), recommend a suite of actions for addressing the current gap in social and emotional wellbeing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

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YAA has released information about this year's Youth Homelessness Day activity in NSW with the national theme of Countdown  - Everyone Counts.

 The theme links to the Homelessness Australia campaign of “Will you be homeless in 2020?” by starting the countdown in 2010 to reduce the number in real terms across all areas of primary, secondary and tertiary homelessness.