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New NFP Model Could Unlock $1.5 Trillion in Super for Affordable Housing

Wendy Williams, Friday, 29th July 2016 - A new initiative for financing affordable housing in Australia could see Not for Profit community housing providers unlock $1.5 trillion in superannuation.

Royal Commissioner Appointed to Investigate NT Youth Detention

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 28th July 2016 - The federal government has appointed former Northern Territory Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian Ross Martin AO to head the royal commission into the state’s child protection and youth detention services.

NSW Needs 100,000 New Homes to Beat Housing Stress

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 28th July 2016 - New South Wales needs 100,000 new social and affordable houses over the next 20 years to prevent decade-long waiting lists blowing out even further, according to a new report from the University of Sydney.

Peak Body Calls for Considered Response to Elder Abuse

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 28th July 2016 - South Australia’s aged care peak body has called for a “considered response” to elder abuse after footage from a hidden camera in an Adelaide nursing home captured a staff member seemingly attempting to suffocate an 89-year-old man with end-sta

Evolving Chair

Prevention Is Better Than a Cure

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 28th July 2016 - Professor Nicholas Cowdery AM QC is the chair of the White Ribbon Australia board. He talks about the board’s commitment to White Ribbon’s vision and purpose in this month’s Evolving Chair

Guide Dogs Australia Voted Most Trusted Charity Brand

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 28th July 2016 - Guide Dogs Australia has been named Australia’s most trusted charity brand in the annual Reader’s Digest poll for the fourth year in a row.

Opinion

Neo-Colonial Culture Needs to Change

Richard Trudgen, Thursday, 28th July 2016 - The ABC report of juvenile injustice in the Northern Territory portrayed a deep underlying culture of mistrust, but Australia needs to move beyond the “neo-cultural cringe” and be ready to truly listen to the First Nations People, writes Richard

Government Urged to Sort Out NDIS ‘IT Debacle’

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 28th July 2016 - The federal government is once again being called on to urgently step in and sort out “the IT debacle hampering the National Disability Insurance Scheme” as some providers claim they are being forced to suspend their services.

Opinion

Ditching Logan’s Public-Private Regeneration Sets QLD Back on Social & Affordable Housing

Hal Pawson, Tuesday, 26th July 2016 - Hal Pawson, professor housing research and policy and associate director at the City Futures Research Centre, UNSW, questions why the Queensland government walked away from Australia’s largest residential urban regeneration project, in this article

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