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Contributions to Parity are encouraged from many different disciplines and specialisations. By contributing to Parity, you will help us to reflect a broad range of voices and perspectives for our Australian and international audiences.

Browse the open call for contributions below to find out about our upcoming issues. Suggestions for articles are always welcome, and support to develop your draft is available.

July 2024

“Homeless Single Men: The Forgotten Homeless?”

This edition attempts to re-focus on the understanding of and response to single men’s homelessness in the context of today’s cultural, social and economic issues, and to see if the policy and service settings can be improved to meet 21st century realities with 21st century responses.

Deadline for submissions: 12 July 2024

August 2024

“New Directions: Redefining Local Government’s Role in Ending Homelessness”

This edition of Parity aims to look widely at local government responses to homelessness – where local government can best respond, and document best practice examples from all across Australia, building knowledge and skill and encouraging more positive community-led partnerships that will work to end homelessness.

Deadline for submissions: 19 July 2024

2024 Publication schedule

February: Victorian Homelessness Conference edition
March: “No Other Option? Supported Residential Services and Private Supported Boarding Houses and Homelessness”
April: Annual Youth Homelessness edition: “Going it Alone: Unaccompanied Child and Youth Homelessness – Pathways into and out of Homelessness”
May: Right on the Edge: Housing In/Security and Older Women
June: Responding to Homelessness in the Northern Territory
July: Homeless Single Men: The Forgotten Homeless
August: Local Government and Homelessness 
September: The NDIS, Disability Housing and Homelessness
October: After the Voice: First Nations Responses to Homelessness
November: Histories of Homelessness

To learn more or to discuss any element of the publication schedule, please contact Noel Murray, Parity Editor, parity@chp.org.au 

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