Our Voice SA is a peer-led, self-advocacy group for adults with intellectual disability. In 2020, the group received a 3-year ILC grant to deliver the Reaching Out project. This is the final evaluation report for the project.

The research presented here builds on existing research to develop modern budget standards that reflect the needs of low paid Australians which can be used to assess adequacy and guide decision-making.

This report analyses the benefits and drawbacks of the policy changes that were put in place to address COVID-19 impacts. The report draws on the perspectives of those services supporting people experiencing poverty to examine the escalation of needs and compounded difficulties for people in poverty during these first years of the pandemic.

This report is the first of its kind to apply the deprivation approach to examine deprivation among young Australians using information provided by young people themselves. It builds on earlier projects that developed and applied the approach used here to adults.

This paper outlines a research project investigating programs for older homeless people in all states in Australia. The wide coverage will enable the research team to provide a comparative analysis of the housing of homeless older people nationally in both urban and regional areas - including programs catering for indigenous people.