Research / Reports
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations aged 50 and over research finds show that the Stolen Generations aged 50 and over are more likely to be worse off than other Indigenous Australians of the same age on a range of health and socioeconomic outcomes. These results are consistent with a previous Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW 2018a) report which analysed a similar set of outcomes for the Stolen Generations aged 50 and over from an earlier 2014–15. survey.
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The health and wellbeing of people with an intellectual disability are influenced by a range of factors, including access to health care, disability support services, education, employment, and housing.
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This report, collated by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, provides contemporary evidence of the ‘gap within the gap’. It shows that Stolen Generations survivors aged 50 and over are more likely to be worse off than other Indigenous Australians of the same age on a range of health and socioeconomic outcomes.
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This report finds that the additional social housing dwellings announced by the NSW Government since 2016 are insufficient to address the current high numbers of people waiting to access social housing. Despite the NSW Governments commitments through Future Directions for Social Housing, the 2020-21 NSW Budget and the Community Housing Innovation Fund, both social housing total expenditure per capita and social housing as a proportion of total housing stock are in decline in NSW.
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The vulnerability of people experiencing homelessness to COVID-19 was also heightened by the higher prevalence of chronic health conditions among the homeless population sleeping rough and in supported accommodation
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The report examines homelessness among the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD)population in Western Australia. It addresses the challenges of understanding the nature of the population and accessing accurate information to determine the population in order to inform appropriate responses. The report examines some of the definition and measurement issues and provides analysis of the data in light of these in order to clarify our understanding of CaLD homelessness.
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Some evidence received on preventing homelessness during COVID-19 pertains to broad and long-term reform. The Committee intends to give further consideration to this evidence in its final report.
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The authors argue that lived experience can inform sharp critique and offer an innovative window on aspects of the ‘shared typical’.
