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Government expands free support services for institutional sex abuse survivors

Community & Social

Expansion of support services will deliver free trauma-informed and culturally appropriate support for people with a disability, Indigenous Australians in remote areas, and those who were abused in smaller or lesser-known institutions.

Federal goal for cashless card welfare recipients to ‘stabilise their lives’

By Melissa Coade

Community & Social

Families and social services minister Anne Ruston has underscored self-reliance and empowerment as the basis of a new cashless debit card.

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What Sydney’s rough sleepers can teach us about accommodation services during a pandemic

By Melissa Coade

Community & Social

The lived experience of people who experienced homelessness during Sydney’s first wave of COVID-19 shows that critical efforts to mobilise worked.

Access to services for vulnerable Queenslanders guaranteed for another year

By Melissa Coade

Community & Social

Extra funding to the tune of $6.3 million has been committed to the QCSS to provide services for another year.

Entrenched disadvantage: place-based, wrap-around services 'essential'

By David Donaldson

Community & Social

The federal government should prioritise funding for “essential” place-based and wrap-around services to help people living in entrenched disadvantage, says a parliamentary committee.

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Government expands free support services for institutional sex abuse survivors

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Federal goal for cashless card welfare recipients to ‘stabilise their lives’

What Sydney’s rough sleepers can teach us about accommodation services during a pandemic

Access to services for vulnerable Queenslanders guaranteed for another year

Entrenched disadvantage: place-based, wrap-around services 'essential'