Advocacy Publications

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, […]