The charity push helping those in need through your morning coffee

The charity push helping those in need through your morning coffee

The national StreetSmart program has raised over $1.6 million for local grassroots organisations,with around 100 cafes in WA taking part this year.

  • byHolly Thompson

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Need more staff? Good luck,workers can’t afford to live in Melbourne anymore

Need more staff? Good luck,workers can’t afford to live in Melbourne anymore

Rising rents and a lack of affordable housing is a growing trend that is impacting the way business and society functions.

  • byMark Steinert
Joe is one of many New Zealanders forced to sleep on the streets of Sydney
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Joe is one of many New Zealanders forced to sleep on the streets of Sydney

Unless Kiwis apply for residency,they are considered non-residents of Australia,which leaves many in limbo feeling like “non-existent people”.

  • byJulie Power
‘Suburban,normal’ women becoming homeless

‘Suburban,normal’ women becoming homeless

Glen-Marie Frost once lived in a mansion in Bellevue Hill,managed an international PR company and was head of communications and community relations for the Sydney Olympics.

  • byPhoebe Loomes
‘No time for politics’:Housing ministers to meet to tackle affordability and homelessness
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‘No time for politics’:Housing ministers to meet to tackle affordability and homelessness

Federal Housing Minister Julie Collins will convene a meeting with her state counterparts on Friday,and says Labor’s Help to Buy scheme could be up and running early next year.

  • byRachel Clun
‘I have to obey’:Su-Lin faces homelessness if she leaves her violent partner

‘I have to obey’:Su-Lin faces homelessness if she leaves her violent partner

Su-Lin,like many migrant women,faces a stark choice whether to stay in a violent relationship or leave and risk homelessness.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
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Alarm sounded over elder homelessness amid soaring rents
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Alarm sounded over elder homelessness amid soaring rents

Pauline West fell into homelessness when she became too sick to work before she was old enough for the age pension.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Planning minister Rita Saffioti intervenes in Perth homeless centre standoff

Planning minister Rita Saffioti intervenes in Perth homeless centre standoff

The WA minister has called in a decision by the City of Perth to block the relocation of a drop-in service centre for homeless people 200 metres around the block from its current site in Northbridge.

  • byPeter de Kruijff
As a kid I was homeless,and that’s why I joined the Vinnies CEO Sleepout last night
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As a kid I was homeless,and that’s why I joined the Vinnies CEO Sleepout last night

As a young boy,for a couple of years,most of my casual wardrobe was provided by Vinnies,as was almost every piece of our furniture,crockery and homewares. Vinnies changed my life.

  • byRichard Stewart
Dinner and a show in Melbourne comes with a serving of harsh reality
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Opinion

Dinner and a show in Melbourne comes with a serving of harsh reality

We have come to Melbourne’s CBD to stay for a weekend for the first time since the pandemic began. But some of the sights were more confronting than others.

  • bySusan Murphy
Perth councillor moves for greater power to block new homeless shelters

Perth councillor moves for greater power to block new homeless shelters

A City of Perth councillor has submitted a motion to this month’s meeting that could mean anyone trying to open a community centre would face another level of scrutiny.

  • byPeter de Kruijff