@ColvinKate

CEO Homelessness Australia

 Melbourne
homelessnessaustralia.org.au
Joined July 2009
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Watch: Right to housing webinar, with @ColvinKate, @HomelessnessAus Jessie Hohmann, @UTSLaw Tyler A, HomeTime campaign @RaghavMotani, UTS Student Association @DaneyHrlc, @humanrightsHRLC Amy Persson, @UTSSocialImpact Learn more: humanrightsact.org.au youtube.com/watch?v=TkOO_gLZ…
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Rental stress, housing insecurity, & homelessness shouldn't be our future. The federal govt must #BuildSocialHousing to ensure everyone can afford a safe, decent place to call home. Read the People’s Commission's final report here👉everybodyshome.com.au/people… @DougCameron51
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This #HomelessnessWeek we’re shining a light on stories shared at the People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis. We must use their voices to take collective action 🏘️ Sign our petition today: everybodyshome.com.au/end-ho… #HW2024
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Thank you @DavidPocock it’s time @AustralianLabor housing crisis to support and fund our housing and homeless national peaks!! You need them to co design policy and deliver the best outcomes across the country @NationalShelter @CHIA_News @ColvinKate @SatPaper
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@DavidPocock28 Jun 2024
Failing to restore funding for @HomelessnessAus & @NationalShelter in the middle of a housing crisis risks losing key data & advocacy we need more than ever. I urge govt to reconsider support to ensure they can survive & keep doing their invaluable work. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…
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ACT Shelter@ACTShelter1 Jul 2024
It breaks our hearts to see sector leaders like Emma from @NationalShelter & Kate from @HomelessnessAus undertake vital analytical, collaborative, conduit & systemic advocacy work on the national stage - with $0 funding from #Auspol in a #housingcrisis Platitudes don't pay bills
National Shelter@NationalShelter28 Jun 2024
Without secure, sustainable funding from government to undertake our work National Shelter may be looking at a different form in 2025. See loom.ly/WqVPTCQ
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The futures of @HomelessnessAus and the Whitlam-era @NationalShelter are becoming more uncertain in a Coalition-era funding squeeze that, to the surprise of advocates, continues under Labor. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news… via @SatPaper 🖊️ @KJBar

Exclusive: Labor is letting housing charities fail

As the government struggles to attract support for its housing policies ahead of a cost-of-living election, homelessness services are left without essential funding.

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Failing to restore funding for @HomelessnessAus & @NationalShelter in the middle of a housing crisis risks losing key data & advocacy we need more than ever. I urge govt to reconsider support to ensure they can survive & keep doing their invaluable work. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news…
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Maiy Azize@MaiyAzize24 May 2024
For the last two days, @_EverybodysHome has been convening hearings as part of our People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis. They’ve been moving, upsetting, and infuriating 🧵
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"Why haven't you looked at increasing JobSeeker? @ColvinKate said that would be the single most effective way of helping women in abusive relationships" Gallagher: "Those payments are indexed" it's depraved to spruik regular CPI indexing as doing something on women's violence
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Increasing income support is essential to reduce growing homelessness. Catch the story on @abcnews #RaiseTheRate m.youtube.com/watch?v=Heub8y…
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ACOSS@ACOSS5 May 2024
More than 200 women leaders have written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urging him to provide economic security for women leaving violence by raising the rate of Jobseeker and Youth Allowance. Read more: acoss.org.au/media-releases/…
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- 20,000 women who wanted to leave a violent partner could not because of a lack of money - 8,000 women return to perps each year due to #homelessness If the Fed govt is serious about #VAW prevention, #Budget2024 must improve housing and income security abc.net.au/news/2024-04-30/h…

Calls for federal government to fix 'gaping holes' in housing support or risk more violence against...

Violence is the biggest cause of homelessness for women and children, says Homelessness Australia CEO Kate Colvin, who has called on the federal government to "confront this challenge".

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Rapidly rising rents are eating up the income support increases in the 2023 Budget. Having enough money to pay the rent is mission critical to people's ability to avoid or escape homelessness. In #Budget2024 Government needs to #RaisetheRate Read more at lnkd.in/gNnhSHZq
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#qanda Yes @RoseBJackson - we need a doubling of the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement to respond to need
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Qld govt increase funding for specialist homelessness services by 20% (extra $72m) over next 18 months and will review the homelessness service system. msn.com/en-au/news/australia…
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We cannot keep forcing some people into homelessness & hunger, whilst we go ahead with the plan to spend billions in tax cuts for the wealthiest in the country #RaisetheRateforGood #Jobseeker @ACOSS theguardian.com/business/202…

Labor could raise welfare payments for cost-of-living relief without stoking inflation, economists...

Albanese government would need to couple any increases in unemployment benefits and pensions with savings, experts say

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Homelessness services have to make devastating choices when resources can’t stretch to everyone needing help. Almost 300 people per day turned away from homelessness help #MYEFO abc.net.au/listen/programs/a…

Hundreds of calls unanswered in homelessness battle - ABC listen

Every day, hundreds of people battling homelessness have their calls for help go unanswered, with support services stretched beyond capacity.

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European Journal of Homelessness Eoin O’Sullivan has urged Australia to embrace “big systemic changes” like tackling poverty to end homelessness. He is speaking at the 2023 Victorian Homelessness Conference today and tomorrow. abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/b…

Busting myths around homelessness

Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.

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Each government department should have an action plan to address the homelessness created in their systems @ColvinKate tells #VHC2023
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The National Housing and Homelessness Plan is an opportunity for transformational change to halve homelessness in five years, and end it in ten. Read our Submission to see how it can be done #endhomelessness #auspol homelessnessaustralia.org.au…
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