ACOSS Reports & Submissions
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.
Most recent papers
February 2005
This year's budget is being framed in a period of prosperity for the Australian economy and for those who enjoy good jobs and incomes. Economic growth has been strong for most of the last decade. People with significant assets have enjoyed rising property and share values. Skilled workers have enjoyed significant wage rises and promotions. Yet many people still live and many of our basic services operate in prosperity's shadow.
ACOSS Paper 137. Includes: Taxation. Taxation recommendations. Indigenous communities. Employment, education & training. Income support. Housing. Rural & remote communities. Community services. Health. Law & justice. Community Legal Centres. Unemployment. Oral Health. Mental Health. Community-based health care. Services for families & children. Indigenous reconciliation & rights.
January 2005
ACOSS agrees with the Government that Australia must bring more people with disabilities of workforce age into employment. Compared with other wealthy countries, we have a poor record in this area. Only 9% of disability pensioners have income from employment compared with an average of about 30% for other wealthy countries. Unfortunately the disability pension is still widely regarded as ‘the end of the line' for people's career prospects. This is unfair and waste of human resources.
ACOSS Info paper 362. Includes: Disability Support Pension. People with disabilities. Rise in DSP. Welfare reform. Unemployment. Public perception of unemployment. Workforce participation. Training. Job Network. Job outcomes for DSP recipients in employment programs.
January 2005
This Report presents the results of the Australian Community Sector Survey 2005 (ACSS). The Report provides information on income and expenditure, service use and workforce issues for the non-profit community sector.
ACOSS Paper 138. Includes: Community services survey of organisations.
October 2004
Any changes to ATSIC need to be determined in consultation and negotiation with Indigenous peoples. An inclusive and transparent process should be developed to establish a sustainable, independent national representative Indigenous body. This process must recognise the diversity and traditional authority structures of Indigenous groups and communities, and allow the time required to achieve this.
October 2004
The research examines the income and family circumstances of the bottom 20% of families, and how their incomes changed over the past seven years compared with that of middle income families
ACOSS Info paper 367. Includes: NATSEM Research. Family assistance payments. Family Tax Benefit. Poorest 20% of Australian families. Family income. Taxation. Federal Budget 2004. Sole parents. Families with teenagers. Policy implications.
October 2004
This paper aims to analyse whether Australia could benefit from the implementation of anti-poverty targets and strategies. To gain an insight into the
relevance and effectiveness of setting anti-poverty targets and strategies, anti-poverty strategies from Ireland and the Great Britain will be reviewed.
ACOSS Info paper 366. Includes: National Anti-Poverty Strategy in Ireland. Anti-poverty targets in Britain. Poverty proofing. Employment programs. Social security. Income payments. Economics. Poverty. Child poverty.
September 2004
Paper highlights key areas of need.
ACOSS Info paper 361. Includes: Family assistance payments. Family Tax Benefit. Child poverty. Youth allownce. Unemployment. Social security payments. Taxation. Medicare. Community care. Oral health. Dementia. Child Care Benefit. Reconciliation. Indigenous representation. Indigenous health. Community Development Employment Program (CDEP). Housing.
September 2004
ACOSS Info paper 363. Includes: Indigenous representation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). Indigenous services. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Comission Amendment Bill 2004.
September 2004
Giving Australia is a major research project investigating volunteering and donations by individuals and businesses in Australia. This research builds on the snap-shots on philanthropy provided by the two seminal ABS surveys in this field, and also provides a collation of resources and development activity and assess important tax reform initiatives.Giving Australia is a collaboration specifically formed to meet the challenges posed by this important research. It brings together a depth of research expertise and a breadth of networks across the non-profit and business sectors and their respective stakeholder groups.
Includes: Giving to nonprofit organisations by individuals and households. Giving to nonprofit organisations by business.
September 2004
Giving Australia is a collaboration specifically formed to meet the challenges posed by this important research. It brings together a depth of research expertise and a breadth of networks across the non-profit and business sectors and their respective stakeholder groups.
Published by Giving Australia, September 2004. Giving Australia is a major research project investigating volunteering and donations by individuals and businesses in Australia. The project was an initiative of the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership, and is being coordinated by ACOSS in collaboration with other research partners.
