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- NSW Budget 'historic investment in social housing'
- Housing: an overlooked social determinant of health
- Australia to have a National Anti-Slavery Commissioner
- Talking about forced marriage: Toolkit for young people
- Rough sleeping increases by 26% in NSW
- Landmark legislation as EU Parliament bans products made with forced labour
- Rental affordability drops to all-time low
- People are dying on our streets. Do we really care?
- On Whose Account? Government Spending on Housing
- The high cost of Australia's unfair tax system
- Greater support for survivors of modern slavery
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- Human trafficking reports increase in Australia
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- 16 days of activism against gender-based violence
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- A place to live in dignity for all: make housing affordable
- Vacancy rates reach record lows, housing affordability crisis to continue
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- Homelessness as a consequence and cause of modern slavery
- Mahboba Rawi OAM awarded the Cath Leary Social Justice Award for 2023
- Ageing in a housing crisis
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- It's time to END homelessness
- Share housing solutions for women over 55 years
- Report on children presenting as homeless in NSW
- Review of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth)
- 41,000 people in modern slavery in Australia
- State of the Nation's Housing Report
- Federal Budget 2023 - 24
- New report highlights the depth of poverty in Australia
- Homelessness in Australia - Census 2021
- NSW moves towards banning no-grounds evictions for renters
- What are the real costs of Australia’s housing crisis for women?
- Finally a path to permanency for refugees on temporary visas
- New Census data reveals growing risk of homelessness for older people in NSW
- Submission to the review of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth)
- Rental Affordability declines in all cities
- State (foster) care extended to 21 years in NSW
- Home at Last service recommended for NSW
- Productivity Commission review of National Housing and Homelessness Agreement
- Congratulations to the winners of the Mercy Youth Awards
- Beyond Storytelling: Towards Survivor-informed Responses To Modern Slavery
- 50 million people are living in modern slavery
- Improving access to existing and alternate accommodation
- Shared Equity home ownership opportunities for older women
- The cost of not investing in housing
- Trafficking in Persons Report 2022
- Investment in housing is critical to addressing domestic and family violence
- Landmark ruling on diplomatic immunity and domestic workers
- The Choice: Violence or Poverty
- On waiting for a social housing tenancy in Australia
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- Women face increasing homelessness due to housing shortfall in Greater Western Sydney
- Call for urgent action on housing affordability in the Federal Election
- Australia ratifies International Forced Labour Protocol
- Upholding our Right to Housing
- Ending homelessness in Australia
- The Social Justice Small Grants program is now open
- People seeking asylum facing homelessness and chronic insecurity
- NSW Modern Slavery Act (2018) to take effect on 1 January 2022
- 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
- Home at Last report launched today
- Sharing the learning from Wongee Mia
- Congratulations Mercy Youth Awards winners!
- Older women, rising property values and homelessness
- Mercy Global Action calls for urgent action at COP26
- Eight years a slave
- A Place to Call Home
- Congratulations to YWCA Canberra
- Final report: Inquiry into homelessness in Australia
- Grants to end homelessness open
- Insecure housing and ageing
- Couple jailed for domestic servitude offences
- June Update from the Mercy Foundation
- 16,800 social housing units urgently needed for women escaping violence
- Mercy Youth Awards are open!
- Crisis in rental affordability
- People for sale at HumanMart
- Recipients of the 2021 Grants to End Homelessness program announced
- First Australian conviction for an exit trafficking offence
- National Action Plan to Combat Modern Slavery
- Gains made in reducing homelessness slipping away
- Older people and homelessness
- Rentals remain severely unaffordable for many households
- Australian Homelessness Monitor for 2020
- Fear for people left behind by the federal budget
- AFP arrests three people over alleged forced marriage
- Interim report on homelessness in Australia and COVID-19
- Working with Older Tenants Toolkit
- New forced marriage resources from ACRATH
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Homelessness
- Older women's experiences in the private rental market
- SHARP Social Housing Acceleration and Renovation Program
- Open letter to the Prime Minister
- 405,000 women over 45 years at risk of homelessness
- 2020 Trafficking in Persons report released
- Implementing Australia's Modern Slavery Act 2018
- Investing in social and affordable housing to support economic recovery
- Increase in families experiencing homelessness
- Housing is health care
- Private rental market fails to provide homes for those most in need
- Where to get help - housing, homelessness and COVID-19
- Report on the NSW Modern Slavery Act 2018 now available
- Compelling address by Mary McAleese to the UN on homelessness
- Snapshot of poverty in Australia
- Housing Policy in Australia: A Case for Reform
- The economic argument for investing in affordable housing
- Rental affordability report reveals the dire situation for renters
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