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 ...

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New research from ACOSS shows people receiving income support payments are going without food, struggling to afford rent and cutting themselves off from friends and family amid rising unemployment.

ACOSS welcomes the government embarking on reforms to the employment services system, which is in desperate need of a radical overhaul. It is imperative that this process delivers significant ...

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 ...

Concerns about poverty in Australia are rising as cost-of-living pressures hit hard, with a majority of people agreeing income support payments are not enough to live on, according to new research by ...

A broad coalition of Australian community organisations has called on the Federal Government to introduce a gas export tax and reform housing tax breaks in the 2026 federal budget. A joint statement, ...

ACOSS welcomes the support of a 25 per cent gas export levy from Andrew Hastie MP and urges parliamentarians from all sides to work together to deliver this long-overdue reform. “People on low and ...