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NFPs Call for Fair and Supported Welfare System

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 1st July 2014 - Peak Not for Profit bodies and welfare organisations have warned that the reform of Australia’s welfare system should ensure that no disadvantaged group is worse off, that…

ACOSS Joins Alliance for Better Job Outcomes for Disadvantaged

Staff Reporter, Monday, 30th June 2014 - A proposal to improve employment services to deliver better job outcomes for people who are disadvantaged in the labour market will be put to the Federal Government by the Australian…

ACOSS challenges Govt to Lead G20 On Youth Unemployment – C20 Summit

Lina Caneva, Saturday, 21st June 2014 -

ACOSS CEO Dr Cassandra Goldie has called on the Federal Government to show global leadership in reducing youth unemployment and achieving inclusive growth, in her address

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No Backdown Andrews Tells NFP Sector

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 12th June 2014 - Federal Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews has fronted the ACOSS National Conference defending the recent Federal Budget, saying that Australia can deny the current social…

Top Community Sector Awards Announced

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 12th June 2014 - A former female prisoner mentoring other prisoners affected by the criminal justice system, one of Australia’s oldest women’s refuges and a disability advocate leading…

Calls for New Way for NFP Sector to Work Together

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 12th June 2014 - An Indigenous leader has called on the community sector to reconfigure the way it works together, in the opening keynote address at this year's ACOSS National Conference in Brisbane.…

New Indigenous Fund to Tackle Budget Cuts

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 12th June 2014 - The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has revealed at the ACOSS National Conference that it will set up a public fund in response to the Federal Government cutting…

Newstart Change Will Push Under-30s into Poverty – ACOSS

Staff Reporter, Friday, 6th June 2014 - Welfare peak body, the Australian Council of Social Service, has called on the Federal Government to drop its plan to deny unemployed people under 30 access to income support for six…

Call to Focus on Jobs for Young Aussies – ACOSS

Staff Reporter, Monday, 2nd June 2014 - The Australian Council of Social Service has urged the Federal Government to focus on improving job opportunities for young people saying the Government is investing precious dollars…

Senate Inquiry Debates ACNC Future

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 27th May 2014 - Supporters and detractors of the the charity regulator, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission, have given evidence to the Senate inquiry into the Coalition…

C20 Summit Registration Deadline Looms

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 27th May 2014 - The registration deadline for the C20 Summit – the first of the lead-in G20 ‘satellite’ conferences to debate proposed policies to be put to the G20 – is…

Hockey Defends ‘Remedial’ Budget to Not for Profits

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 21st May 2014 - Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has been forced to defend his Federal Budget to the Not for Profit sector, saying that while the Coalition’s Budget may seem tough, society’s…

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