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Lismore floods

Supporting local businesses may hold key to better disaster recovery

Samantha Freestone, Monday, 11th July 2022 -  Is more support for local businesses the key to kick-starting flood recovery efforts? 

Opinion

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Abolishing the Cashless Debit Card is a good first step

David Tennant, Monday, 11th July 2022 -  The move provides an important opportunity to consider a bigger question – how did Australia’s social services legislation become a vehicle for punishing benefit recipients, writes David Tennant.
A keyboard in the background as an accessibility keyboard attached to it. A person is using the accessible keyboard. We are looking over their shoulder and can only see their hands.

Disability services not always suited to digital, report reveals

Danielle Kutchel, Friday, 8th July 2022 -  Better preparation is needed to ensure continuity of services for NDIS participants in times of crisis.
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Life satisfaction not back to pre-COVID levels

Isabelle Oderberg, Thursday, 7th July 2022 -  New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows national life satisfaction levels are still not back to pre-COVID levels, as the mental health sector pushes for capacity and funding fixes. 
person holding a cardboard sign saying "affordable housing now"

A long-term plan to provide homes for all

Isabelle Oderberg, Thursday, 7th July 2022 -  Anglicare Australia reveals 20-year roadmap to affordable housing.
A man stands in front of the camera, turned away from it. He has tattoors on his arm and is holding a brown paper bag and his phone. He is a gig worker, delivering food.

‘Uberisation’ of the disability sector threatens provision of care

Danielle Kutchel, Wednesday, 6th July 2022 -  A new report finds the digital contracting model, which has grown over the past five years, is “unsuitable” to the disability sector.

COSS Corner

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Changes to Workforce Australia, funding indexation, and no rights without remedy

Contributor, Wednesday, 6th July 2022 -  All the latest news from the Councils of Social Service of Australia.

Opinion

Multiculturalism and inclusion

From multicultural to inclusive: there’s more work to do

Violet Roumeliotis, Monday, 4th July 2022 -  It's important following the first tranche of the 2021 Census data, that we don't fall into the trap of confusing multiculturalism with inclusion, writes Violet Roumeliotis.
A young woman shouts at the camera. She has spiky brown hair and is wearing a white midriff top. She is holding a poster in the shape of a uterus that says 'not yours'. Her shirt says 'empower women'.

What Australia thinks about Roe v Wade

Danielle Kutchel, Friday, 1st July 2022 -  Advocates in Australia have called on governments to do more to ensure abortion is not only legal, but accessible.

Opinion

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Extending care works – just ask us

Contributor, Thursday, 30th June 2022 -  New South Wales is now the only jurisdiction that doesn’t extend comprehensive support to care leavers beyond the age of 18. Here, the Youth Advisory Group of Uniting’s Extended Care Program responds to the NSW state budget neglecting to consider

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