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Volunteers from all cultures contradict research

12 May 2008

Monash University recently came out with a research report which suggested that migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds are a lot less likely to volunteer than Australian born people and migrants from English speaking countries.

Mission Australia’s experience with volunteers at our Western Sydney migrant and refugee support services largely contradicts this research. Read More...

Mission Australia welcomes groundbreaking youth homelessness report

Tuesday, 08 April 2008 16:59

Homeless Youth Mission Australia has welcomed the National Youth Commission’s report into youth homelessness and supported its call for establishing a National Homelessness Strategy along with a range of other measures to tackle the problem.

Mission Australia – which last year assisted more than 70,000 people across its youth and housing support services – said the report, Australia’s Homeless Youth, accurately exposed the scale of the problem and offered a range of solutions for moving ahead.

Mission Australia’s Acting CEO, Mr Lincoln Hopper, said youth homelessness was a serious blight on Australian society.

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Migrants and refugees give back to Australia

National Volunteers Week 12-18 May 2008One of the country’s largest charities, Mission Australia reports that more than half of volunteers at its Migrant and Refugee Services are from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB), conflicting with recent research by Monash University suggesting ...

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New centre with historic heart offers assistance to disadvantaged Tasmanians

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