In this paper Sean McNelis describes an Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute project investigating Independent Living Units - units provided by not-for-profit organisations and which are targeted at older persons with relatively low incomes and low assets. The project is looking at the significance and status of ILUs as an affordable and appropriate housing...

There has been a significant growth in poverty in Australia over the last decade. At the time of this report's release a consensus of estimates puts the number of people living in poverty at between two and three and a half million. In reporting on this inquiry into poverty the Senate Community Affairs References Committee...

In the Hunter area, the population is ageing faster than the total NSW population. The Positive Ageing Strategy Hunter (PASH) has been developed by the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (Hunter Region) in conjunction with a multi-disciplinary advisory committee. PASH is based on a philosophy of early intervention and prevention to enable...

Aunty Jean's Good Health Team began as a pilot program that aimed to develop a combined model of health promotion, education and self management that could be supportive of and sustain the development of good health behaviours and strategies for Aboriginal people with chronic and complex care needs. This report explains how the program was...

The conflation of community with place in planning is so ubiquitous, and so clearly well intentioned that it almost seems churlish to point out that if there is one thing that a community is not these days, it is a place.