ACOSS welcomes the introduction of a bill today to reform the taxation of discretionary trusts and private companies. High-income earners routinely exploit discretionary trusts to cut their tax rates ...
The federal government’s $630 million funding announcement to support fairer pay for 460,000 health, disability and community workers is welcome news for a sector pushed to its limits. Australia’s ...
A cross-sector alliance has warned the Albanese Government’s domestic gas reservation is on course to be captured by narrow vested interests. The group includes many of the biggest players in the ...
Australia’s income support system is leaving large numbers of people below the poverty line, according to new research from the ACOSS and UNSW Sydney-led Poverty and Inequality Partnership released at ...
The campaign to Raise the Rate for Good is key to reducing poverty and inequality in Australia. The goal of the Raise the Rate campaign is to fix our social security safety net for good so that it ...
In the lead-up to the Voice Referendum, ACOSS partnered with the Fred Hollows Foundation, ANTAR and Oxfam Australia to launch the Allies for Uluru Coalition in support of the Uluru Statement from the ...
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New data shows Australia’s housing and homelessness crisis is worsening, prompting calls to curb property investor tax breaks and build more social homes. The Productivity Commission’s Report on ...
People experiencing financial and social disadvantage are struggling to keep their homes cool in summer and becoming seriously unwell from the heat, ACOSS research has found. A survey conducted by ...
In Anti-Poverty Week ACOSS has released new analysis which shows that the woefully low JobSeeker payment is just 20% of the average wage. The ACOSS Briefing on Solutions to Poverty shows that, while ...
This budget needed to do two things. It needed to protect people who were hurting the worst, those with the least, and it needed to do the big reforms that this country needs for now and into the ...
New research by ACOSS and UNSW Sydney reveals the widening wealth gap between people with the most and least, even as income inequality slows. The latest report from the Poverty and Inequality ...