Advocacy Publications

To mark the UN International Day of People with Disability and as part of work funded by the ACT Office For Disability, ACTCOSS partnered with People With Disabilities ACT on a health-themed edition of The Canberra Disability Review, and produced an infographic ‘Medicopoly’ highlighting choice and control issues in access to health. We used the […]

Joint submission by ACTCOSS, Canberra Business Chamber, CHC Affordable Housing, Master Builders ACT, Property Council of Australia – ACT Division, Australian Property Institute ACT and Real Estate Institute ACT. The proposed changes to the water and sewerage infrastructure charging regime represent the most significant change to infrastructure charges in the ACT since the introduction of […]

In this position paper we explore the policy issues related to addressing transport disadvantage in our city. We note that, as used broadly in existing literature, the term ‘transport disadvantage’ is separate to social disadvantage and that it can affect both socially disadvantaged and socially advantaged people. Who is affected by transport disadvantage largely depends […]

ACTCOSS welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the Exposure Draft of the Public Advocate (Official Visitors) Amendment Bill 2012, as released by the ACT Greens on 10 January 2012. The role of Official Visitors is an important one, seeking to hear the voices and experiences of people detained or voluntarily being cared for in […]

This green paper, launched in Anti-Poverty Week 2015, features the voices of representatives from Canberra’s community and private sectors as they unite around the issues surrounding the ACT housing affordability crisis. ACTCOSS contributed the chapter titled ‘Anything but average: Understanding rental housing affordability in Canberra’.

ACTCOSS provided comment to the Standing Committee on the Public Accounts Inquiry into the Auditor General’s Report No.4 of 2013: National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH). The review had two clear objectives: to identify that the ACT government is meeting its obligations, and that the NPAH is making a difference for homeless persons. ACTCOSS notes, […]