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- 50 million people are living in modern slavery
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- The Social Justice Small Grants program is now open
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- Home at Last report launched today
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- Older women, rising property values and homelessness
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- June Update from the Mercy Foundation
- 16,800 social housing units urgently needed for women escaping violence
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- Crisis in rental affordability
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- First Australian conviction for an exit trafficking offence
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- Australian Homelessness Monitor for 2020
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- AFP arrests three people over alleged forced marriage
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- New forced marriage resources from ACRATH
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- 405,000 women over 45 years at risk of homelessness
- 2020 Trafficking in Persons report released
- Implementing Australia's Modern Slavery Act 2018
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- Compelling address by Mary McAleese to the UN on homelessness
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