The federal government’s $630 million funding announcement to support fairer pay for 460,000 health, disability and community workers is welcome news for a sector pushed to its limits. Australia’s ...
ACOSS welcomes the introduction of a bill today to reform the taxation of discretionary trusts and private companies. High-income earners routinely exploit discretionary trusts to cut their tax rates ...
The campaign to Raise the Rate for Good is key to reducing poverty and inequality in Australia. The goal of the Raise the Rate campaign is to fix our social security safety net for good so that it ...
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Community services, including disability, family violence and homelessness organisations, are at breaking point and facing a staffing crisis due to years of inadequate government funding, new research ...
New research by ACOSS and UNSW Sydney reveals the widening wealth gap between people with the most and least, even as income inequality slows. The latest report from the Poverty and Inequality ...
ACOSS is urging the federal government to deliver a cost of living package to help people on low incomes to afford their energy bills as Australia heads into a forecast horror summer. It comes as the ...
Read ACOSS Briefing Note, May 2024: Impact of major Budget cost-of-living measures on different households | View ACOSS budget analysis slides: ACOSS address, Post Budget Event, May 2024 The ...
New data shows Australia’s housing and homelessness crisis is worsening, prompting calls to curb property investor tax breaks and build more social homes. The Productivity Commission’s Report on ...
As countries begin announcing their proposed 2035 emission reduction targets at COP29 in Baku, Australia’s social service sector released a statement calling on the Australian government to aim for ...
ACOSS is calling on all parties and candidates to support reforms to negative gearing and the 50% capital gains discount and invest the revenue raised in social and affordable housing after releasing ...
More than 200 women leaders including from business, unions, philanthropy, academia and the community sector have written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urging him to provide economic security for ...