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Green Corps initiative for Community Education Week, Gumeracha

29th September 2008

Old age took on a new meaning for about 50 Year 10 students from St John Grammar School at Belair last Thursday, on a special excursion to visit one of Mission Australia’s Green Corps projects...Read More...

Mission Australia joins industry and government at the Social Innovation Summit

Friday, 26 September 2008 15:48

It is one of the frustrations of our society that for all of our knowledge and progress, we can not seem to fix the entrenched disadvantage that permeates much of our community.

Last weekend, 50 people came together looking for ways to address this anomaly, at the third annual Social Innovation Summit held in the Hunter Valley. Previous Summits, held in 2006 and in London in 2007, raised the need for more creative ways to combat long-term disadvantage...

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U-Turn graduates donate restored car

A group of young Tasmanians today graduated from Mission Australia's U-Turn automotive training course following the rebuilding and restoration of a 93 Model Hyundai.

Mission Australia’s Community Services Operations Manager Lucy O’Flaherty said the keys to the ... Read More

Mission Australia supports local music in the south

The best live bands in the southern suburbs will compete against each other in the Battle of the Bands staged by Mission Australia’s Reynella Enterprise and Youth Centre (REYC) over the October long weekend.

Mission Australia’s Onkaparinga Youth Services ... Read More

Green Corps activity to help Riverglades

Mission Australia’s Green Corps program will increase the chances for young people in the Murray Bridge area to become employed while assisting with environmental works at the Riverglades Wetlands.

Mission Australia’s Green Corps service manager Leanne Sandery ... Read More

Community Engagement blooms in Garden Project

Disengaged young people have learned more about teamwork and commitment – and how to tell the difference between weeds and “real” plants – during a Community Garden project run by Mission Australia at Hackham West.

The Hackham ... Read More

Latest homeless figures reflect 'wasted years of inaction'

Today’s release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2006 Census of homeless people confirms the failure of past homeless policies and is evidence why a dramatic new approach to tackling the problem is needed, according to one of the nation’s ... Read More

Hoax Email Alert

Subject: SERIOUS Police warning...

It has come to our attention that persons unknown have issued the above bogus email purporting to come from Mission Australia. This alleged warning is a hoax and we recommend that you delete it from your Inbox and refrain from forwarding it.