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 ...
The Australian Council of Social Service sends its love and deepest concern to Dr Helen Haines MP, her family and loved ones following the shocking attack outside her electorate office in Wangaratta ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Almost seven in ten people who rent privately worry about asking for repairs in case they face a rent increase, according to research by the ACOSS/UNSW Sydney-led Poverty and Inequality Partnership, ...
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 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 ...
The Government must immediately stop the Targeted Compliance Framework being used against people relying on income support, after the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s report today found alarming systematic ...
In Anti-Poverty Week ACOSS has released new analysis which shows that the woefully low JobSeeker payment is just 20% of the average wage. The ACOSS Briefing on Solutions to Poverty shows that, while ...