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Anglicare provided a submission to the Making Queensland Safer (Adult Crime, Adult Time) Amendment Bill 2025. Both the original Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024, and this Amendment Bill, remain incompatible with the human rights of children. The additional amendments in this Bill will generate further harm to children, their families, and their communities whilst continuing to ignore evidence about the lack of efficacy of child detention. 

Since 2010, Anglicare Australia and a network of state and regional partners have conducted the annual Rental Affordability Snapshot. Now in its sixteenth year, findings across the country continue to expose an alarming trend in the private rental market.

This report, based on research by The University of Queensland Bachelor of Social Science students, identified the ways in which news media help to shape public perceptions of youth offending; and influence which policy responses are considered to be acceptable and appropriate.

This article describes the journey of a young woman as she faces the transition out of state care to adulthood. It originally appeared in the magazine Here and Now (Apr/May 2021).

This article for the June 2019 issue of Parity, the national journal of the Council to Homeless Persons, describes the impact of ‘hostile architecture’ as a means of physically and socially excluding those experiencing homelessness.

In 2022, Anglicare staff from the Managing Public Intoxication Program in Townsville provided input to our submission to this Queensland Government inquiry. Our submission drew upon staff expertise and experience to argue that a health and welfare-based response is a more effective and humane way to address public intoxication than a criminal justice response.

With the Anglican Church Southern Queensland, Anglicare provided a submission to the Queensland Government Department of Justice and Attorney-General consultation into a domestic and family violence perpetrator strategy. Our response reflects our deep commitment to stop domestic and family violence in all its forms and to care and support those impacted by violence.

Anglicare’s submission to the Office for Women and Violence Prevention to inform the development of a Queensland Women’s Strategy made an argument for a holistic, systemic approach addressing cross-agency and cross-jurisdictional barriers, such as childcare, affordable transport and housing, that disproportionately impact women, and particularly women in need.

Our submission to the Queensland Government’s 2021 Inquiry into Social Isolation and Loneliness in Queensland offers examples of successful Anglicare programs, services and activities that contribute to the protective factors that we know mitigate social isolation and loneliness; and suggests ways in which existing programs can be leveraged to benefit Queenslanders at risk.

This project used ‘complexity’ methods and tools, including Sensemaker©, to provide a channel for young people to inform youth policy, program development and service delivery.

Anglicare provided a submission to the 2021 Queensland Government Inquiry into raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years. As part of the national #RaisetheAge campaign, we believe that criminalising children from the age of 10 years old is totally inconsistent not only with medical advice, but also with social norms and expectations about protecting children.

In 2024, we provided a submission to the Queensland Government consultation to inform the proposed Putting Queensland Kids First package, and how it will deliver better outcomes for young Queenslanders.

Anglicare provided a submission to the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) consultation in 2023 to inform a new Early Years Strategy, in recognition of the vital importance of the first five years of every child’s life.

Anglicare provided a submission to the inquiry into the Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024. The Bill disregards both international and Australian evidence about the efficacy of child detention in reducing youth offending; as well as multiple elements of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. and Queensland’s own Human Rights Act 2019.

Anglicare’s submission to the Queensland Government inquiry into youth justice reform drew heavily on the voices of the young people from our Intensive Bail Initiative program, recognising that there are relatively few opportunities for young people themselves to offer insights into what would deter them from offending behaviours. This submission provided one way for Government to hear their voices

Anglicare’s submission to the Inquiry into the Child Safe Organisations Bill 2024 reiterated our support for the implementation of the Royal Commission’s recommendations for Child Safe Standards and a Reportable Conduct Scheme, and addressed key elements of the Bill.

This report details the process and outcomes of a collaborative ‘photovoice’ project with The University of Queensland Life Course Centre, that explored the understandings of ‘home’ held by young people at risk of, or experiencing homelessness.

Anglicare’s submission to the Queensland Government mental health inquiry emphasised an active, strengths-based approach that enables a dialogue on how to build mentally healthy and resilient communities, and embed mental health services within them.

In our submission to the Australian Government Department of Social Services consultation to inform a National Housing and Homelessness Plan, we address not only the interventions and supports that need to be part of a national plan, but also ask the bigger question: Do we want to ‘reduce’ or ‘manage’ homelessness — or do we want to end it?

Anglicare’s submission into the Productivity Commission’s review of the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement emphasised the need for a rights-based, strategic national policy approach and associated funding to address the housing crisis now and into the future.