Positions Vacant? When the Jobs Aren’t There is the title of the 2016 report, and it is informed by Anglicare Australia's first Jobs Availability Snapshot.

Anglicare Australia has developed the hashtag #AntiPovertyPriority to mark Anti-Poverty Week, which began on the 16th and continues to the 22nd of October. In a short video, staff of the Anglicare Australia National office have shared their own visions for eliminating poverty in Australia. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uuTx4ECBRc) As the ACOSS Poverty in Australia report launched yesterday reminds us, Australia’s poorest people are getting poorer, an increasing number of children are being left behind and the inadequacy of basic income support is being denied by those who can simply look the other way.

"Releasing the information that tells us about the impact of public funding and programs is an important step towards finding a formula for long term investment in our communities. However, in the process, we need to ensure that our goal remains the wellbeing of people, not merely reducing the welfare cost to our bottom line.”

Today Anglicare Victoria launched a Raising our children: Guiding young Victorians in care into adulthood, a socioeconomic cost benefit analysis commissioned from Deloitte Access Economics. It provides the evidence of the wide economic and social benefit of extending support to young people in state care from 18 to 21 years.

Kasy Chambers, Executive Director of Anglicare Australia today argued that minority government can be a good thing and that this negotiating period is an opportunity for political parties to focus on governing for a more inclusive society.

The leaders of Australia's major homelessness service providers (Anglicare Australia, Mission Australia, UnitingCare Australia, the Salvation Army, the St Vincent de Paul Society and Wesley Mission) have written a joint opinion editorial calling on national leadership and political commitment to addressing homelessness. The charities urge all political parties to adopt the target of halving homelessness by 2025.

Anglicare Australia today launched its 2016 Election Position Statement on adequate income. “In our modern society, inadequate income leads to exclusion” said executive director Kasy Chambers “And that damages communities and economies.”

Anglicare Australia is campaigning with key not-for-profit partners for a national plan to increase the supply of affordable housing and to halve homelessness by 2025. Today it renewed its call for all the key players in this year’s federal election to commit to national action on housing and homelessness.

The leaders of the largest homelessness services are pleased that the Shadow Housing and Homelessness Minister, Senator Katy Gallagher, has reflected the call for a target to halve homelessness by 2025 when announcing Labor’s national affordable housing strategy yesterday.

Anglicare Australia today released its election Position Paper on Secure Work. “Work insecurity is one face of an economy that is not operating in the best interest of us all” executive director Kasy Chambers said today.