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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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August 2006
As the peak council of the community and welfare sector, concerned about low income and disadvantaged Australians and social inequality, ACOSS welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Government’s ‘streamlining superannuation’ proposals.
July 2006
Many single parents and people with disabilities who apply for social security payments after 1 July 2006 will be affected by the Government's Welfare to Work legislation, passed by the Parliament late last year. The changes include new activity requirements, greater investment in employment assistance services to help people get work, and a compliance and penalty regime for people who fail to meet the newrequirements.
ACOSS Info paper 381. Includes: Effect of policy on rural and regional electorates. Analysis of population affected by electorate. Welfare to Work package. Employment. Unemployment. Newstart Allowance. Disability Support Pension. Parenting Payment. Single parents. People with disabilities.
May 2006
A joint and open letter to the government conveying concern at conditions within some Indigenous communities in Australia. While it is imperative that children be protected from harm, solutions to the alarming levels of abuse in Indigenous communities cannot be addressed by the legal system or the child protection system alone. In moving forward, ACOSS and its members encourage the Government to invest in addressing the causes, as well as the symptoms, of these problems in Indigenous communities.
May 2006
Includes:Tax revenue. Tax cuts. Superannuation. Family Tax Benefits. Indigenous disadvantage. Careers. Utilities. Medicare. Childcare. Mental Health. Smart Card. Child Support. Federal Budget Spending. Key Economic Indicators. Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. Department of Family and Community Services. Department of Health. Department of Human Services.
April 2006
The Government recently commissioned a report on international comparisons of Australia's tax system to assess priorities for tax reform. This ACOSS Info Paper shows that Australia is a low taxing nation. It argues that tax reform is needed, not to reduce the overall level of taxation, but to raise revenue more fairly by closing tax breaks which enable high income earners to pay tax at less than their marginal tax rate. It proposes that eight of these tax breaks be closed to save $8 billion in public revenue. This could be used to improve services, and ultimately to reduce rates of tax for all taxpayers.
Includes: Budget waste on tax cuts. Tax breaks for high income earners. Private health insurance rebate. Capital gains tax (CGT). Superannuation. Fringe benefits tax (FBT). Termination payments.
March 2006
Re-imagining Australian Society: Visions and solutions - ACOSS 2005 Congress Papers
Includes: Housing. Indigenous communities. Welfare reform. Industrial Relations. Safety of children and families. Child protection. Strengthening communities. Communities and Information and Communications Technologies. Rural communities and services. Community and welfare sector.
February 2006
Includes: Community services. Home and Community Care. Child care. Unemployment. Employment assistance. Disability Open Employment Services. Dental care. Medicare. Health care. Housing. Rent Assistance. Public housing. Indigenous housing. Indigenous Health. Legal services. Rural and remote communities. Social security. Poverty. Tax.
February 2006
This paper analyses primarily the formal child care and preschool services provided to children from birth to the year before school (0-4 years old). It makes ten recommendations to improve access to high quality early childhood education and care services for all children and place the child care industry on a more stable and sustainable footing.
ACOSS Info paper 383. Includes: Child care services. Preschool education. Child Care Benefit. Child Care Tax Rebate. Quality of child care. Access to child care. Costs of child care. ACOSS proposals.
January 2006
This Report presents the results of the Australian Community Sector Survey 2006 (ACSS). The Report provides information on service use, income, expenditure and workforce issues for the community services and welfare sector.
ACOSS Paper 143. Includes: Community services survey of organisations.
January 2006
This discussion paper provides further information about charities law and definition to community organisations. The partners in this project - Jobs Australia, VCOSS and ACOSS - believe that the legal and administrative framework governing charities needs to be better understood by our sector and that the framework needs to be reformed.