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Let’s create affordable housing, not more homelessness
Cassandra Goldie | August 8, 2018ACOSS is backing the Everybody’s Home campaign calling on government to develop, as a matter of urgency, a national housing strategy and plan to end homelessness by 2030.
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Fighting the shift from services to tax cuts
Cassandra Goldie | April 27, 2018The Australian Council of Social Service has criticised the Treasurer’s announcement that he will not pursue an increase in the Medicare Levy to help fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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More competition could risk human service delivery
Cassandra Goldie | March 29, 2018The Australian Council of Social Service argues that introducing further competition into human services provision carries significant risk, in response to the Productivity Commission’s report.
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Even wealthy shareholders should help pay for essential services
Cassandra Goldie | March 16, 2018The governments’ continued provision of essential health, aged care, NDIS and other services is shaky as long as large gaps in Australia’s revenue base remain and the well-off should not escape their share of the burden.
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Australia must lift the incomes of the bottom 40%
Cassandra Goldie | March 13, 2018Australia should pledge to improve the incomes of the less well off to meet its international development commitments.