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Low-income Aussies have come out of COVID more financially vulnerable than before

Nikki Stefanoff, Monday, 31st May 2021 -  Accessing super and increased debt during COVID will have lifelong consequences for women, those over 45, single parents and disability pension recipients

COSS Corner

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State budgets, helping the community get the jab and Queensland’s housing crisis

Contributor, Monday, 31st May 2021 -  All the latest news from the Councils of Social Service of Australia.

Opinion

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Reconciliation Week is everybody’s business

Andrew Cairns, Thursday, 27th May 2021 -  Organisations must think beyond cultural competence as a compliance exercise and more of a moral obligation, writes Haven Home Safe CEO Andrew Cairns, reflecting on the need to make the mainstream housing and homelessness system culturally safe.

Opinion

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This Reconciliation Week we need action to go with the bold commitments

John Leha, Thursday, 27th May 2021 -  The theme for Reconciliation Week this year is “More than a word. Reconciliation takes action.” There could not be a more appropriate theme for this moment in time, writes John Leha, who says the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in out-o

The path to Australia’s first truth-telling museum

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 26th May 2021 -  “This museum and healing centre will ensure what happened to Stolen Generations survivors will never be repeated.” 
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Water companies must step up as frontline domestic violence responders, research says

Maggie Coggan, Tuesday, 25th May 2021 -  Experts say that water companies can play a critical role in helping survivors of domestic violence, but many women are falling through the cracks 

A report shows that the pandemic brought us closer but the young and First Nations people face discrimination

Nikki Stefanoff, Monday, 24th May 2021 -  Young people were the only group to experience a drop in their personal wellbeing in 2020
Homeless man on the street

The forgotten group put in the ‘too-hard basket’ during Australia’s vaccine rollout

Luke Michael, Monday, 24th May 2021 -  Homelessness groups say rough sleepers are being forgotten during the vaccine rollout, with a lack of national coordination or strategy making it difficult to protect this vulnerable cohort                              

Opinion

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An investment in the mental health, wellbeing and education of Victoria’s children and families

Deb Tsorbaris, Friday, 21st May 2021 -  Deb Tsorbaris, CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, responds to the Victorian state budget.

Opinion

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Preventing a rebound in youth homelessness after COVID-19

Contributor, Wednesday, 19th May 2021 -  Initiatives to protect homeless young people during the pandemic were effective, but we need a long-term strategy that delivers better support and helps prevent homelessness, write Dr Jess Heerde, Professor George Patton, Associate Professor Rohan Bo

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