Contents
Foreword
The Hon Mark Butler MP, Minister for Housing and Homelessness
Editorial
Jenny Smith, CEO Council to Homeless Persons
Homelessness Australia: Update
Nicole Lawder, CEO, Homelessness Australia
What Works: Policy, Program and Service Responses to Aboriginal Homelessness — Introduction
Professor Paul Memmott, Aboriginal environments Research Centre, The University of Queensland
Part 1: Policy, Program and Service Responses
Responding to Indigenous Youth Homelessness: Lessons from Reconnect
Department of Families and Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
Aboriginal Housing Victoria: More Than Just a Roof Over the Head
Michael Calvert, CEO Aboriginal Housing Victoria
Larrakia and the Response to Aboriginal Homelessness in the Northern Territory
Ilana Eldrige, CEO Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation
Crowded Out: A Case Study of Homelessness, Crowding and the Tennant Creek Women’s Refuge
Paul Memmott, Daphne Nash, Bernard Baffour, Kelly Greenop, The University of Queensland
Ten Years On: Reflections from the Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria
Brooke McKail, Policy Development Worker, Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria
Walking Together on a Two-Way Learning Journey
Josey Hansen, Aboriginal Consultant, AnglicareWAJules Whiteway, Regional Coordinator Kalgoorlie/Goldfields, AnglicareWAAndrew Hall, General Manager Social Inclusion, Anglicare WA
Finding Common Ground: The Parkies and Police Community Golf Day
Michael Ali, Indigenous Men’s Recreation Program, HomeGround Services
The North Coast Accommodation Project
Frances Short, Senior Project Officer Homelessness, Housing NSW — Northern Region
Who’s Dreaming?
Ruth Simon, Dtarawarra, Aboriginal Resource Unit, New South Wales
From Inside Aboriginal Housing Victoria’s Tenant Facilitation Team
Nadu Dove, Tenant Facilitation Team Manager, Aboriginal Housing Victoria
What Works: Policy, Program and Service Responses to Aboriginal Homelessness
Aboriginal Workers from Ngwala Willumbong, Melbourne Victoria
‘Serving Two Masters’
Leigh Woolcock, Senior Program Manager, Tenancy Sustainability and Support Program and A Place to Call Home, Anglicare Northern Territory
Towards a New Place: Tackling Homelessness in Townsville
Kevin Keeffe and Jennifer Newbould, Australian Red Cross
Part 2: Rethinking Aboriginal Housing
Beyond Political Ideology — The Mainstreaming of Aboriginal Public Housing
Alice Clark, Executive Director, Shelter SA
We cannot simply bury our heads in the sand
Part 1: Genocide and Assimilation
Alice Clark, Executive Director, Shelter SA
Home is when I am safe from harm
Part 2: Meaning of Home and Mainstreaming
Alice Clark, Executive Director, Shelter SA
I reckon I will just walk away and live on the streets myself. It’s all too hard!
Part 3: Cultural Obligations to Accommodate Family and Housing Design
Alice Clark, Executive Director, Shelter SA