20 October 2021 Communities living in the regional Queensland electorate of Hinkler suffer the highest levels of disadvantage of any electorate in Australia, according to major research undertaken by Catholic Social Services Australia. Hinkler is located in coastal Queensland and takes in the towns of Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Childers, Gayndah and Monto. The research undertaken in 2020 shows...
14 July 2020 As published in CathNews New research on disadvantage in Australia has found that it’s not just income that matters when calculating disadvantage, but other factors such as health and education. The research, conducted by the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods and commissioned by Catholic Social Services Australia, (CSSA), found the gap between...
13 July 2020 Article by Brenton Prosser and Ben Phillips, as published in The Conversation New research on disadvantage in Australia has found the gap between rich and poor is very wide in Sydney, while much of Queensland struggles with educational disadvantage and regional NSW and Victoria are both more disadvantaged when it comes to health. Previous research...
23 March 2020 Article by Malcolm Farr, as published at news.com.au They are potentially among the most vulnerable to the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic — the thousands of Australians already captive to persistent disadvantage. They have been short-changed on health care, education, economic capacity and social cohesion, according to a ground-breaking national survey released today. The survey, commissioned...
Media Release Monday 23 March 2020 People across Australia are experiencing persistent disadvantage but are being forgotten because of the fallacy of average levels of advantage, a new Catholic Social Services Australia report has revealed. Mapping the Potential, a partnership between CSSA, 21 of its members and the Australian National University’s Centre for Social Research Methods, goes beyond the usual analysis of advantage...
31 December 2019 CatholicCare Wollongong has been invited to participate in the ELDAC project, an initiative funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. ELDAC is conducted by a consortium of three universities and five national peak bodies from the aged, primary and specialist palliative care sectors. ELDAC is a multifaceted program with diverse areas of application....
31 December 2019 Every day, Sacred Heart Mission (SHM) works to provide people who are experiencing homelessness with access to a wide range of services that work to address the underlying causes of chronic disadvantage and social exclusion. For more than a decade, SHM developed, tested and refined a program that addresses chronic homelessness — the Journey...
28 November 2019 As the nation’s attention again turns to bushfire, drought, regional mental health and family support, we are reminded of the important role social services play in the aftermath of community disasters. In this piece, CSSA Research Director, Brenton Prosser, overviews recent work that seeks to capture the value of the services from locally-embedded...
Media Article 11 September 2019 More than 20 Catholic social service providers from across Australia have joined with researchers from the Australian National University to commission new research into entrenched disadvantage. ANU Researchers with Dr Brenton Prosser (left), Former Director Research, CSSA Today marks the commencement of research activity for the Identifying Locational Drivers of Entrenched Disadvantage project. “This project...
26 July 2019 Times are changing. Not only do you have to be good at what you do, increasingly you need to show the outcomes of what you do. CSSA's former Research Director, Brenton Prosser, explores some simple strategies for social service providers to display their good work with more impact. Around the world, governments need more...
