Media Releases
2010
- Tackling Tough Transport Topics
5 May 2010
- Closing the Gap – not in this Budget!
5 May 2010
- The Good, the Bad and the Missing
4 May 2010
- Compulsory Income Management - No Good, Anywhere
12 Apr 2010
- One in Ten Having to Be Turned Away
15 Feb 2010
2009
- One Minister for One Department Welcome
10 Nov 09
- Decent Wages One Step Closer
5 Nov 09
- All Aboard?
28 Aug 09
- Human Rights for All?
15 Jun 09
- Government Fails to Prioritise Vulnerable People
5 May 09
- How will the Act Budget Affect
Canberra’s Vulnerable?
4 May 09
- ABCs not that Easy for 78,000 Canberrans
26 Mar 09
- Essentials Take More From Low Income Budgets
4 Feb 09
2008
- Mini-Budget Helps Reduce Impact of Financial Crisis
10 Dec 08
- Minister Plibersek to Address ACTCOSS AGM
25 Nov 08
- Roslyn Dundas appointed Director of ACTCOSS
12 Sep 08
- Meet the "Fairness Challenge": ACTCOSS to Candidates
15 Aug 08
- Launch: Circles of Support - Towards Indigenous Justice
29 Jul 08
- Budget Initiatives will Strengthen Community
7 May 08
- Investment in Community Facilities will Benefit Canberra's Most Vulnerable
5 May 08
2007
- Is Australia Fair?
14 Nov 07
- Senate Candidates Go Head-to-Head on Poverty
17 Oct 07
- New Data on Low Income Canberrans
15 Oct 07
- Invest Budget Surplus in a More Equitable Canberra
5 Oct 07
- New Book Celebrates the Narrabundah Longstay Park Community
26 Sep 07
- ACTCOSS: Opening our Doors
28 Aug 07
- No Wrong Doors: ACTCOSS Report on Mental Health Services
21 Jun 07
- Two Reports Chart a New Course
for the ACT Community Mental Health Sector
21 Jun 07
- Stanhope Presents ACT Budget to Community Sector
6 Jun 07
- ACT Budget: A Small Step Forward but More to Do
5 Jun 07
- Chief Minister Faces Community Sector on Budget
4 Jun 07
- ACT Homeless: High Mental Health and Drug Use Problems
16 Mar 07
- 30% Increase in Canberra Underemployment
27 Feb 07
- ACT Public Housing Report: Can Do Better
6 Feb 07
2006
- ACTCOSS Conference Meets to "Lift the Chill"
17 Aug 06
- Indigenous Canberrans Meet to "Lift The Chill"
16 Aug 06
- Long-Stay Park Gets Respite
8 Aug 06
- Midwinter Rally Against Cuts to Housing and Homelessness Services
22 Jun 06
- Community to Protest Cuts to Housing and Homelessness Services
21 Jun 06
- Homelessness Strategy Left Out in the Cold
19 Jun 06
- housing affordability figures don't show the full picture
16 Jun 06
- Forum on Canberra's new Prison: How will we help prisoners?
16 May 06
- Caravan Park Residents should not be left homeless
11 May 06
- Budget benefits don't extend to those who need it most
10 May 06
- Disadvantaged could face double-whammy : Will the ACT Government make our poor worse off?
11 Apr 06
- 12,800 Canberrans can't find enough work : 'Real' unemployment rate is nearly 7%
4 Apr 06
- ACTCOSS Applauds Tabling of Civil Union Bill
28 Mar 06
- Women still disadvantaged in Canberra
8 Mar 06
- Housing summit must lead to action
28 Feb 06
- Housing: A Call For Action
17 Feb 06
- Spending on Human Services must not be cut.
17 Feb 06
- Community Organisations Fear Effects of IR Reforms
10 Feb 06
- Who Goes To University.
17 Jan 06
- Extended School Holidays Expose Family/Work Stress.
5 Jan 06
2005
- 'Tis the season to go hungry.
21 Dec 05
- Postcards from the edge : Community sector send a message on wages and conditions.
6 Dec 05
- Welfare-to-Work will cause more hardship.
6 Dec 05
- ACTCOSS Welcomes ACT civil unions.
2 Dec 05
- New stats support increase in drug services.
23 Nov 05
- No ifs or buts - Needle and syringe program must be part of new gaol health program.
11 Nov 05
- Electricity market transition arrangements must remain in place.
4 Nov 05
- 'The Heart of the Community' : The Big Turn Out in Civic to celebrate community sector workers.
28 Oct 05
- The Big Turn Out : Celebrating community workers - the Heart of our Community.
28 Oct 05
- Launch of ACTCOSS guide to homelessness services.
20 Oct 05
- Move for law reform to help people in poverty
20 Oct 05
- 'The Heart of the Community' : Campaign launched for better wages and conditions for community workers.
31 Aug 05
- New survey shows growing gap between rich and poor.
12 Aug 05
- Tensure essential to housing stability.
26 Jul 05
- 1,500 Canberrans could be worse off if welfare law passed.
25 Jul 05
- Tight Rental Market Squeezes the Homeless and Disad
15 Jul 05
- Childcare costs will impact on Canberra parents seeking to rejoin workforce.
20 Jun 05
- If you are what you eat, what happens when you can't afford to buy food.
12 May 05
- Registered Relationships Scheme Helps Protect Human Rights.
12 May 05
- Tax Cuts For the Rich Instead of Services for the Disadvantaged.
11 May 05
- ACTCOSS Annual Post- Budget Briefing for the Community Sector
5 May 05
- Social Justice Dries up in Budget Drought
4 May 05
- Community work gets more difficult, good staff hard to find: New Survey
6 Apr 05
- Massive Blowout in Unmet Need: New Report.
21 Mar 05
- Homelessness providers pushed past limit under new deal.
10 Mar 05
- Don't punish poor in tight Budget.
9 Mar 05
- No home? Too bad.
7 Mar 05
- ACTCOSS mourns the loss of social justice advocate, Charlie Pahlman.
25 Jan 05
