Advocacy Publications

This report presents the outcomes from a workshop that aimed at assisting Evoenergy in engaging with, and supporting the engagement of, vulnerable energy consumers as part of the development of their next 5-year plan for the gas network in the ACT and Queanbeyan-Palerang region.  Evoenergy is the region’s gas distribution network provider and is required to submit its gas access arrangement proposal for the 2021-26 period to the Australian Energy […]

Our submission in response to the ACT Sustainable Energy Policy 2020-25 Discussion Paper calls on the ACT Government to assess all measures in its next 5-year plan for sustainable energy against criteria for a just transition to zero net greenhouse gas emissions in the ACT by 2045. The submission includes 20 recommendations aimed at building community trust and ensuring a socially […]

This submission responds to the ACT Community Services Directorate’s ‘Strengthening partnerships: commissioning for social impact – discussion paper’. ACTCOSS strongly supports the development of a Commissioning for Social Impact Strategy as a whole-of-government framework that should assist in matching the intent of The Social Compact and other partnership arrangements between the ACT Government and community […]

In ACTCOSS’s submission for the 2020-21 ACT Budget, we outline fifty priorities. Our submission calls for adequate resourcing of community-based, non-government delivered services and responses to meet community need and a changing Canberra. It also seeks fulfillment of ACT Government promises plus community priorities set out in successive Budget submissions since the 2016 election. These […]

In 1999, ACTCOSS and the ACT Government started the Poverty Task Group, beginning a concerted effort to quantify poverty in Canberra and highlight its lived experience. Shattered Myths is a retrospective of twenty years of work on poverty, tracing ACTCOSS’s continued efforts to shatter myths about prosperity being available to everyone in Canberra. The publication […]

In October 2014, ACTCOSS and the Women’s Centre for Health Matters collaborated to release a report for Anti-Poverty Week titled Creating Opportunity or Entrenching Disadvantage? which explored ACT labour market data and trends, and the female share for the largest employing industries in the ACT. Now 5 years later, approximately 37,000 people live in low-income […]

This report is from a project conducted by ACTCOSS with support from the ACT Office For Disability as part of the ACT’s commitment to implementing the National Disability Strategy.  The report shows that people with disability self-report poor health outcomes arising from personal and structural issues: Economic disadvantage Diagnostic overshadowing (where a person’s disability is […]

ACTCOSS has made a submission to the Inquiry into Child and Youth Protection Services as it is of significant interest to several of our members and the wider Canberra community. ACTCOSS members working with children, young people and families who encounter child and youth protection services (CYPS) have been actively engaged in discussions on systems […]

This factsheet provides an overview of ACT data on energy hardship in low income households, energy debt and hardship programs and electricity disconnections. This is one of a series of ACTCOSS factsheets that harnesses data to provide accessible insights into key social policy issues in the ACT.

In this submission, ACTCOSS supports the ACT Government’s engagement with the community in the development of its Digital Strategy for 2020-2022. In addition to supporting the themes and priorities outlined in the strategy, we refer the government to our previous recommendations on digital inclusion and the digital economy. We also highlight the need to develop the […]