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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One in eight people in Australia, including one in six children are living in poverty, a new report released on the eve of Anti-Poverty Week has found, as cost of living pressures continue to put ...
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 ...
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 ...
People experiencing financial and social disadvantage are struggling to keep their homes cool in summer and becoming seriously unwell from the heat, ACOSS research has found. A survey conducted by ...
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, ...
People on low incomes are sweltering through 45C temperatures in their homes, seriously impacting their health and wellbeing, new research shows. Almost two thirds of people on income support (62 per ...
The Federal Government’s own independent Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has called for a substantial increase to JobSeeker and related income support payments as its top priority recommendation ...
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 ...