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Multicultural Australia (MA) is a foundational member of the Queensland Community Alliance and recognises that this Inquiry is initiated in response to the grass-roots process of community listening and organising through the Alliance.
MA commends the Queensland Government in honouring the commitment provided to the Alliance around developing a state-wide strategy to address social isolation and loneliness, starting with a Parliamentary Inquiry.
MA’s submission seeks to highlight issues affecting people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (including refugees, migrants, people seeking asylum, and temporary visa holders) that can cause loneliness; and the barriers they may face in getting help to address these.
MA’s recommendation is for the consideration of a comprehensive strategy to address social isolation and loneliness in Queensland.
Any such strategy must be informed by the voices and experiences of communities across Queensland (including around raising awareness of the risks of loneliness, as well as, in the design of specific interventions to tackle loneliness and isolation).
MA recommends additional research around developing evidence-based measures of loneliness that can easily translate across languages and cultures.
Any such strategy should consider adequate resourcing and support at the local level for frontline resources and community spaces to mobilise action and support from within the community.
Community attitudes towards poverty and inequality in Australia
Presentations and Webinars | Publication Date: 14 December 2023
A seminar on the findings from the ACOSS and UNSW partnership report, presented by Scientia Professor Carla Treloar, Jacqueline Phillips and Mark Chenery for the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre on...
Ending Child Poverty in Australia – BSL Talks
Presentations and Webinars | Publication Date: 27 October 2023
Special Anti-Poverty Week edition of the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) Talks webinars. Focuses on Ending child poverty in...
ABCB Standard for Livable Housing Design (mandatory)
Guides and Templates | Publication Date: 24 April 2023
The ABCB has released 2 new publications to support practitioners’ understanding of the new livable housing design provisions in the NCC, and the ABCB Standard for Livable Housing...
The Business of Tomorrow
Guides and Templates Policy/Procedure Sector Initiatives | Publication Date: 2023-10-12
This book offers systems founded on needs rather than debt, and as such alters reality through new housing, trading, and energy systems. The HousingExchange.com.au to be launched by the end of the...
A Guide to Providing Housing Focused Support
Guides and Templates | Publication Date: 1 December 2022
Build your knowledge of activities and interventions that help people to gain and sustain a home with this series of practice guides. Each guide breaks down a core component of housing-focused...
Effective Engagement: building relationships with community and other stakeholders
Toolkits | Publication Date: 13 July 2022
In 2005 the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment released a three part resource on Effective Engagement: building relationships with community and other stakeholder. In 2015, it...
Tenant Participation (Q Shelter Learning Exchange held June 2022)
Guides and Templates | Publication Date: 24 June 2022
Tenant participation is an important part of the work undertaken by Community Housing Providers, it is a two-way process involving tenants working in partnership with providers to share ideas,...
Domestic and Family Violence Resources
Toolkits | Publication Date: 17 June 2022
As a community, we all have a responsibility to put an end to domestic and family violence. In our role as a peak body, Q Shelter has engaged in work which aims to equip providers of housing and...