Anna McCann

Save the Children welcomes the Australian Government’s announcement of an additional $29 million in humanitarian funding to support communities suffering from the combined impact of conflict, the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and Yemen.

VMCH has labelled a VCAT decision to reject an Ivanhoe East retirement development in the midst of a national housing crisis as “short-sighted” and “nonsensical”. On 18 May 2023, the Victorian Administrative Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) refused an application by the non-profit organisation for a five-storey, 56-apartment retirement development. It followed a planning permit refusal from Banyule City Council in September last year.

In what is shaping up as a massive year for national housing and homelessness reform, there has never been a more important time for the Northern Territory Government to step up to the plate and secure needs-based funding for the Territory, says NT Shelter.