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Climate, Energy and Utilities

Climate change disproportionately impacts people who face disadvantage, including people on low incomes, people with disability and chronic health conditions and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. ACTCOSS advocates for a fair, fast and inclusive transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the ACT and works with partners to ensure fair outcomes for low-income households in relation to energy and utilities more broadly.

ACTCOSS is funded by Energy Consumers Australia to support ACT low-income households, non-government organisations and small business consumers to participate fully in consultations and decision making on energy issues.

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ACTCOSS Position Statement on the Climate, Energy and Utilities

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Submission: Integrated Energy Plan Position Paper

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Submission: Inquiry into climate change and a just transition

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Report: Supporting a fair, fast and inclusive energy transition in the ACT – ACT small energy consumers’ understanding, planning and support needs

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Submission: Draft Design Guide for ACT Active Travel Plan

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20 June 2025 Learn more

Unequal relief: As pressure eases for some, cost-of-living crisis extends for Canberra’s lowest income earners

ACTCOSS’s latest ACT Cost of Living Report reveals that easing inflation and recent interest rate cuts have done little to relieve acute financial stress faced by Canberra’s lowest-income households. ACTCOSS CEO, Dr Devin Bowles, said: “Improvements in the economy over the last year have disproportionately benefited middle and high-income earners, while those experiencing poverty continue to […]

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26 March 2025 Learn more
Media release

People in poverty left high and dry in Federal cash splash

“This budget, with its modest tax cut of $10 a week, has cash for everyone except those with the least” said ACTCOSS CEO Dr Devin Bowles. “It is shocking that in the face of a cost-of-living crisis, there were no moves to lift Canberrans out of deep poverty by fixing JobSeeker and other income support […]

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14 April 2025

2025–26 Comprehensive Budget Statement

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14 February 2025

ACTCOSS ACT Budget Priorities 2025–26 – Preliminary Statement

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3 January 2025

Energy Hardship Factsheet

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21 August 2024

2024 ACT Cost of Living Report

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