Queensland Shelter E-bulletin –25th September

Queensland NRAS Forum

Queensland Shelter in conjunction with the National Affordable Housing Summit group today hosted a forum looking at the progress to date of the National Rental Affordability Scheme.

In the absence of Julian Disney, the forum was convened by Adrian Pisarski with speakers including Sue Ham from FAHCSIA, Robn Zakharov and Kevin Bottle from the Department of Communities, Mike Myers from Queensland Affordable Housing Consortium and Eddie Bourke from CHFA.

Information received from the forum will feed into Queensland Shelter’s response to the NRAS Post Implementation Review.

Many thanks to everyone who came to the conference and provided feedback on NRAS so far.
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ICHO forums

Queensland Shelter will be facilitating two ICHOs Forums on the 16th and 23rd October, 2009 in Cairns and Townsville respectively. The feature of both forums will be the attendance of the Minister, The Hon. Karen Struthers. We encourage ICHOs to attend to hear the Minister respond to the many issues raised by ICHO delegates. The Department of Communities is also making funds available for two delegates to attend the forums; and for QShelter to recover our costs as facilitators of the forums. These two forums will be attended by delegates from Services throughout Queensland, except the SEQ region – who have already met with the Minister twice this year.

Part of the agenda, is to get the ICHOs to a position of being well informed and to have a clear understanding of the implications of the proposed OSHS benefits and issues prior to the deadline for deciding whether to become registered providers in Qld. To date, just under 20% of ICHOs have signed on to be registered providers.
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Australian Street Socceroos

Queensland Shelter would like to congratulate Australia’s Street Socceroos who recently competed in the Big Issue Homelessness World Cup in Milan and won the Best and Fairest award in the competition.

In particular we would like congratulate Brisbane player, Beau, who was named as the team’s media spokesperson. The achievements of Beau and the team are inspring!
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Anti Poverty Week Picnic in the Park

The Gold Coast Homelessness Network is hosting an Anti-Poverty Week Picnic in the Park at the Rotary Youth Centre Southport on 15 October in conjunction with Set Free care, and Queensland Shelter.

The network will cater for almost two hundred of the Gold Coast’s hungry and homeless, provide entertainment, exercise, and an opportunity for the homeless to connect with services. The event is also supported by the Hepatitis Council of Queensland and the Qld Injectors Health Network. Contact policypm@qshelter.asn.au if you would like to find out more or be a part of the event.
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Welfare Rights Centre Photographic Competition

Photographers with an interest in their community.... Use your artistic talents to raise awareness about poverty and social exclusion in our community. The Welfare Rights Centre is hosting a community awareness campaign where everyone has an opportunity to participate and win $500 cash.
There are three prize categories:

1. Open category – sponsored by Mission Australia (Qld Branch)
2. Photographers that identify as having a disability
3. Photographs that have a rural or remote theme

The competition closes on 12 October 2009. Examples of photographs are on the Website along with the rules and hints on taking photographs.
For further information please visit www.sceneandunseen.com or email Welfare Rights on wrcqld@wrcqld.org.au
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Upcoming Meetings and Events

North Moreton: Joining the Dots follow up forum

When: Wednesday 30 September, 9.30am to 11.30am
Where: Meeting room 1, upstairs at Pathways above Library, Nth Lakes Drive, Northlakes,
E-mail: cd@prnc.org.au

Sunshine Coast Housing Network

When: 6 October at 9.30 a.m.
Where: No Limits Foundation office @ Ocean Street, Maroochydore(next to WIN TV)

Bayside Housing Reference Group

When: 6th October 2 p.m.
Where: Housing and Homelessness Services, Bayside Office Capalaba

Gold Coast Homelessness Network:

When: 7th October 2009 10 a.m.
Contact rads@goldcoastyouthservice.com for venue information.
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