Forgotten Australians health funding leads media update

Today’s media update leads with a question mark over funding for the health costs of Victoria’s Forgotten Australians. Affordable housing, the human rights charter, a Warrnambool service review and Rainbow Hair for Foster Care also feature.

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Forgotten Australians

• Money runs out for former wards’ health bills, The Age, 19 September 2011

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Affordable housing

• Housing getting less affordable all over Australia, ABC Radio National AM, 19 September 2011
   

Review of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities
 

• Baillieu intervenes to keep rights charter, The Sunday Age, 18 September 2011
   

CSO service reviews

• Community Connections chief speaks, The Standard, 17 September 2011
   

Rainbow Hair for Foster Care

• Rainbow Hair for Foster Care, GiveNow.com.au, 16 September 2011
   

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