This report outlines progress in dealing with homelessness over the past year, including case studies from individuals that have been helped by the new reforms. The Australian Government is using three strategies to guide our work to reduce homelessness: Turning off the Tap: preventing homelessness, wherever possible, through early intervention and prevention services. Improving and...

Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, managed jointly by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the Australian Institute of Family Studies, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, is a long term research project to better understand the environment in which Australian children are growing up.

From June to the end of August 2009, the Australian Government conducted extensive consultations with Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory about future directions for the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER). Some consultation meetings also took place in late May and early September. In its response to the report of the NTER Review Board, the...

In February 2009 the Australian government announced $26.6 million over four years to establish the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, to be operational from January 2010. This report summarises the views of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about how the foundation should operate. More than 450 people attended 17 workshops and forums...

Set up to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the EOWW Act, this review will consider practical ways to improve the equal opportunity framework to deliver better outcomes for Australian women. Despite the significant increases in women’s workforce participation, women continue to spend less time in the paid workforce than men, and to fare less...