Support ACOSS in developing sound policy and undertake effective advocacy on the needs of people affected by poverty, disadvantage and inequality, and to build a strong and sustainable community sector.
Each year ACOSS prepares numerous submissions to the Federal Government. We also undertake research and produce reports on policy areas that impact disadvantaged Australians. The latest ACOSS submissions and topical papers appear below as downloadable links.
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March 2007
The focus of this paper is the training and education needs of jobless Australians with limited education and skills: more than half those jobless people affected by the Welfare to Work policy have Year 10 qualifications or less, including more than 60 per cent of jobless Parenting Payment recipients and people with disabilities. This greatly disadvantages them in the jobs market.
February 2007
This Report presents the results of the Australian Community Sector Survey 2007 (ACSS). The Report provides information on service use, income, expenditure and workforce issues for the community services and welfare sector. The ACSS is the only annual survey which covers the non-profit community services and welfare sector, which is a major provider of the community services that most of us rely on at some point in our lives, but which are particularly important to people on low incomes.
ACOSS Paper 154
January 2007
Right now there are two million Australians who do not have an acceptable standard of living and go without the bare necessities: housing, work, education, health care and community services. Their daily struggle to make ends meet takes its toll on their health and life chances.
Includes: Information about fairness in Australia. Exercises to help you prepare a list of 10 essentials to make Australia fair.
December 2006
In November 2006 the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations released a discussion paper entitled Indigenous Potential Meets Economic Opportunity, on the future role of the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) and various Indigenous and mainstream employment assistance programs in assisting Indigenous people in major urban and regional centres to obtain employment.
October 2006
National report on the state of dental care.
September 2006
ACOSS Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Committee. Includes: Commonwealth-State Territory Disability Agreement. Services for people with disabilities. Australian Federal Budget.
August 2006
Includes: Minimum wage. Wage fixation. Social security system. Decentralised wage bargaining. Minimum wage. Inequality. Poverty. Social security policy. UNICEF. Child poverty. Part-time, casual and under-employed workers.
