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Cooperation not intervention: a call for a new direction in the Northern Territory
23 November 2011
Aboriginal peak bodies, community welfare and public health groups from around the country are calling for a new direction in policies affecting Aboriginal Australians based on cooperation, not... [ Read more ]
Latest report on Indigenous disadvantage mirrors ACOSS findings
25 August 2011
The peak national community services body, ACOSS, says the latest report on Indigenous disadvantage mirrors its own findings showing that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are grossly... [ Read more ]
Invest in case management for long-term unemployed, not ‘wasteful’ income quarantining: ACOSS
10 March 2011
The peak body for the community welfare sector today welcomed Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey's call for closer case management to better support long-term unemployed people into work, but... [ Read more ]
Peak community body supports calls for overhaul of NT intervention
17 November 2010
The Australian Council of Social Service has offered its full support for the call by the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services and Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the... [ Read more ]
Community Sector urges political consensus on Indigenous recognition in Constitution
12 November 2010
The community services peak body, ACOSS, has hailed the Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to form an expert panel to advise on recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in... [ Read more ]
Housing affordability should be centre of election agenda : ACOSS launches election platform
4 August 2010
ACOSS is calling for political leaders to commit to measures to improve the critical shortage of affordable housing in Australia and alleviate the acute financial pressures on low-income people.... [ Read more ]
Income Management Scheme to Penalise Low-Income Australians
26 February 2010
The federal government is set to roll-out a wasteful and highly bureaucratic scheme that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars and will exacerbate not address social problems say national... [ Read more ]
Compulsory Income Management Scheme Wasteful and Discriminatory
22 December 2009
The Federal Government should immediately halt its plans to expand compulsory income management across Australia, and instead redirect funding to programs that address social problems and... [ Read more ]
Rollout of Blanket Income Management Unfair and Un-Australian
25 November 2009
ACOSS has raised concerns about the Federal Government's plans to roll out income management across the country, saying it could further disadvantage low income Australians.
"While the reinstatement... [ Read more ]
Low income Australians are doing it tough
8 December 2008
New research from ACOSS shows many low income Australians go without the basic necessities like a decent and secure home, access to dental treatment and new schoolbooks and clothes for their... [ Read more ]