Transcript of Navigating The Road Home National Advocacy On The White Paper
- 1. Navigating the Road Home national advocacy on the White
Paper
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- Overview: where are we at with the WP?
- Better placed now than when Bob Hawke said No child will live
in poverty
- We have ambitious targets, but also have
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- a national strategy (White Paper)
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- funding committed to 2013
- We also have major challenges
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- hard to get picture across different states
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- 2 topics for this presentation
- advocacy/lobbying in 2009
- what are some of the challenges over the next 5 years?
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- Advocacy/lobbying in 2009
- Lobbying public service (programs, policy)
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- research strategy, legislation to replace SAAP
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- other related measures National Compact for Young
Australians
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- Lobbying public service (cont)
- DEEWR and Job Services Australia
- H.O.P.E. project Housing Options and Pathways to
Employment
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- 4 streams with varying levels of support,
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- brokerage for clients in stream 4
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- advocacy at a state/territory level
- Policy Officers in SA, WA, Tas, NT
- State conferences YAA, CHP, QShelter/QCOSS
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- overview of whats happening to SAAP
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- House of Reps Inquiry into new homelessness legislation
- Talk to number of different Ministers
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- Canberra AGM: Plibersek, Ellis (youth), Arbib (employment
services)
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- Do about a dozen media releases a year
- Generally get interest from who you would expect, ie ABC,
SBS
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- harder to get interest from Daily Telegraph
- sometimes we get a real bang
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- - 20 media interviews after release of Counting the Homeless
data
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- Australian Drugs Conference
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- Australias Welfare Conference
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- National Housing Conference
- Pull all of this work together at the 2010 National
Homelessness Conference
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- 5 major challenges to remember over the next 5 years:
- Capture the public interest
- Skill up the media on homelessness
- Manage relationships with politicians in a subtle, clever
way
- Need some champions in govt, from other sectors (like
employment, AOD etc)
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- Remember that advocacy is a long hard process.
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