On Census night in 2006, the homeless population in Australia was 105,000. Most homeless people were sheltered somewhere on Census night but absolute homelessness, such as sleeping out or in an improvised shelter, accounted for 16% of homelessness in Australia.On Census night in 2006, the homeless population in Australia was 105,000, according to an academic...

Homelessness will be a test of the Rudd Government, write David MacKenzie and David Eldridge, from the National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness.

Chris Chamberlain and David MacKenzie estimate that 25,000 to 30,000 students experience a period of homelessness each year, and that most homeless students drop out of school. Since 1995, the early intervention perspective has been widely adopted around the country. This report focuses on three issues: understanding the main causes of, and pathways into youth...

This is the first report from the project, Counting the Homeless in 2001, a research program focusing on Australia's homeless population at the time of the 2001 Census of Population and Housing. This report presents the main findings from the second national census of homeless school students, and estimates the total number of homeless young...