Australian Council of Social Service

Media Highlights - 2012

May 2012

• Labor's desperate bid to get re-elected -Michael Gill SMH May 10 2012
• Report finds hungry kids as parents struggle - Laetitia Lemke ABC TV News May 10 2012
• Single Parent Budget Cuts - Fran Kelly interview Tony Nicholson May 10 2012
• Changes to hurt single parents  -Fleur Anderson Australian Financial Review May 10 2012 
• Most vulnerable still fall between cracks, says agency -Adele Horin SMH May 10 2012 
• Fair overall: welfare groups -Lauren Wilson and Lanai Vasek The Australian May 9 2012 
• Coalition finds cracks in Government's debt ceiling -Anna Caldwell Courier Mail May 9 2012 
• Medical claims to be means tested -Annette Sampson May 9 2012 SMH
• How Swan got his surplus -Peter Martin SMH May 09 2012 
• Health offset Medical claims to be means tested -Annette Sampson Canberra Times May 9 2012 
• How Swan got his surplus -Peter Martin Canberra Times May 09 2012
• Swan's Robin Hood Act Disappoints Some -Lisa Martin Ninemsn May 9 2012
• WA will be left $1.lb worse off, says Porter -Natasha Boddy West Australian May 9 2012
• Welfare Groups Respond to Budget -ABC News May 9 2012
• Health: Michael Marmot and the other budget lock-up -Melissa Sweet Crikey May 9 2012
• Welfare lobby "generally happy" with budget (AUDIO): ABC News Radio May 9 2012
• Welfare advocate lobbied for Timor -David Scott SMH May 8 2012 
• 'Labor values' drive bid to get in the black -Andrew Probyn West Australian May 8 2012
• Mining tax to fund budget families boost -AAP Ninemsn May 8 2012
• Business not happy with Swan cut -AAP SMH May 8 2012
• Single parents hurt by budget: ACOSS -AAP Ninemsn May 8 2012
• Wayne Swan delivers a budget surplus -ABC Radio National May 8 2012 (Guest: Dr Cassandra Goldie)
• Budget 2012 -ABC Radio National May 8 2012 (Interview with Tessa Boyd Caine & Peter Martin)
• Plea to spare single parents from budget cuts -Peter Martin SMH May 7 2012
• ACOSS wants PM to increase payments -AAP Ninemsn May 7 2012
• PM urged to increase welfare payments -Big Pond News May 7 2012
• ACOSS wants PM to increase payments -AAP Business Spectator May 7 2012
• Council tries to stop cuts to 100,000 sole parents -Peter Martin SMH May 7 2012
• PM urged to increase welfare payments -Sky News May 7 2012
• Plea to spare single parents from budget cuts -Peter Martin WA Today May 7 2012
• Plea to spare sole parents from 'disturbing' Newstart push -Peter Martin Canberra Times May 7 2012 
• Should we abandon the goal of a budget surplus? -Cassandra Goldie The Age, SMH May 5 2012 
• Welfare bodies hit bite on benefits -Dan Harrison The Age May 5 2012
• Nudge nudge, wink wink, nanny soaks the poor to fatten the budget -Julie Novak The Australian May 01 2012

April 2012

• ACOSS suggests tax reform would save billions - Fran Kelly ABC RN Breakfast April 26 2012 LISTEN >>
• New savings suggestions from welfare lobby group ACOSS, as treasurer crunches Budget numbers - ABC News Radio April 26 2012 LISTEN to interview with Marius Benson>>
• Government urged to trim $8bn in tax breaks - ABC News April 26 2012
• Want $8 billion in savings? Attack welfare for the well-off - Peter Martin Fairfax April 26 2012
• Welfare lobby suggests budget cuts - David Uren, The Australian April 26 2012
• Cut tax rebates, save $8bn, says report - AAP The Australian April 26 2012
• Cut tax rebates and save govt $8bn: report - AAP Ninemsn Apr 26 2012
• Welfare groups want tax discounts on golden handshakes for executives - Phillip Hudson Herald Sun April 26, 2012
• Poor bear brunt of 'nanny taxes' - Exclusive: Adam Creighton, The Australian April 26 2012
• The painful truth about trying to live on $35 a day - Peter Martin SMH The Age April 24 2012
• Survey indicates unemployment benefits are not enough to live on - Ross Peak Canberra Times April 24 2012 
• Recapping a welfare week - Alexandra Lamb The Age April 22 2012
• Outsiders - ABC RN Sunday Extra, April 22, 2012 Guests: Professor Peter Whiteford - Director, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Chris Berg - Research Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs, Ben Eltham - National Affairs correspondent for New Matilda & fellow for the Centre for Policy Development LISTEN >>
• Hockey criticises Australia's welfare safety net - RN Breakfast April 20, 2012 - LISTEN >>
• Razor gangs and welfare reformers must not lose sight of evidence - SMH Opinion April 20 2012
• Super Duped - Mike Seccombe The Global Mail April 20 2012
• The politics of housing: locking us out of affordable solutions - Sarah Toohey The Drum April 20 2012 (Sarah Toohey is Campaign Director of Australians for Affordable Housing)
• Paltry Newstart Allowance is fast becoming a poverty trap - Peter Whiteford The Conversation April 20 2012
• Womersley: Getting by on $35 a day - Ross Womersley Adelaide Advertiser April 20, 2012
• Hockey hits nerve with talk of chop to welfare - Phillip Coorey SMH April 20, 2012
• ACOSS boss says any crackdown on government payouts should target the rich, not the poor - NewsRadio April 19, 2012 LISTEN to Interview Cassandra Goldie with Kathy Bell
• Imagining Australia in 2030 - Radio National Big Ideas April 19, 2012 (Highlights of the Imagining Australia in 2030 session at the Australian Council of Social Service conference) LISTEN >>
• Panel discussion: Welfare spending - RN Drive April 19, 2012 Listen or Download Cassandra Goldie and Peter Whiteford with Waleed Aly
• Hockey calls for smaller welfare state, smaller government - The World Today April 19 2012
• Hockey's flagged cuts to income support short lived - ABC PM April 19 2012
• Hockeynomics Eats Our Safety Net - Ben Eltham New Matilda April 19 2012
• Minimal calls to welfare fraud line investigated - Patricia Karvelas The Australian April 19 2012
• Abuse as a child linked to longer term homeless - Adele Horin SMH April 19 2012
• Sebastopol woman calls for rise in Centrelink Newstart Allowance - Tom McIlroy Ballarat Courier 18 April 2012
• Newstart benefit fails even to pay the rent - Peter Martin The Age SMH April 17 2012
• Newstart not enough to make a difference - Tony Reidy, Launceston Examiner April 17 2012 (Tony Reidy, CEO of TasCOSS - the peak body for the Tasmanian community services sector)
• The cost of poverty is way more expensive than the dole - John Falzon The Punch April 17 2012 (Dr John Falzon is the chief executive of the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council)
• Sacked workers use savings before dole kicks in - Patricia Karvelas The Australian April 17 2012
• It costs more to leave people homeless than it does to help them - Meredith Griffiths ABC AM Program April 17 2012 (Mission Australia)
• Ballarat's welfare recipients living on $35 a day - Tom McIlroy Editorial Ballarat Courier April 16 2012
• Budget figures mean little when jobs are hard to come by - Editorial Ballarat Courier April 16 2012
• No charge for mailed Centrelink statements - AAP SMH April 16 2012
• Extra $50 in dole will cost $117m - Staff Writers The Advertiser April 16 2012
• Senator to spend week on the dole - AAP Herald Sun April 13 2012
• Greens Senator's pledge of 'poverty' - ABC Radio PM Program - Friday, April 13 2012 (The Greens Senator, Rachel Siewert, and Cassandra Goldie) LISTEN to Rachel Siewert interview with Fran Kelly on ABC RN Breakfast >>
• Dumping on charities - Salvation Army says carbon tax will be a costly load of rubbish - EXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis The Daily Telegraph April 11 2012
• Government to trial welfare shake-up - Nick McCallum 3AW Morning program April 10 2012 
• Should public servants run people's lives in this extreme manner? Is this a dangerous level of socialism that Australia shouldn't experiment with? Listen to the interview and have your say >> April 10 2012
• Swan stands by negative gearing - The Australian April 9 2012
• NSW leader John Robertson calls for debate on changes to negative gearing- The Australian April 08 2012
• Welfare staff facing rise in violence - The Age April 7, 2012
• New face of homelessness is likely to be old and female | SMH April 07 2012
• Super 'biased against lower paid' - SMH April 07 2012
• Father of super says system 'inequitable' -The Canberra Times April 7 2012
• Housing policies: designed to create stress, inequity and other health and social problems - Crikey April 3 2012

March 2012

• Disability plan to be fast-tracked with budget cuts to bankroll scheme -Sue O'Reilly The Australian March 31 2012 
• Dole Rise Ruled Out -Weekend Post March 31 2012 
• GetUp targets billionaires -Weekend Post March 31 2012
• Mixed messages but childcare rebate to escape means test - Canberra Times March 30 2012
• Ad Targets Mining Magnates -AAP The Australian March 30 2012 
• No dole increase in budget -Judith Ireland Canberra Times March 30 2012 
• No increase to dole payments - Government -AAP The Australian March 30 2012 
• Dental care needs to be improved: Govt -AAP Ninemsn March 30 2012
• GetUp launches ad targeting mining magnate -AAP Ninemsn March 30 2012
• Queensland Labor rout a headache for Gillard -Andrew Probyn The West Australian March 30 2012
• Push to Increase Jobless Welfare  -The Cairns Post March 30 2012
• How tweet it is, says Wayne Swan -Nic Christensen The Australian March 30 2012 
• 'Voters are anti-tycoon, too', says Wayne Swan -Matthew Franklin The Australian March 30 2012 
• Treasurer tweets; voters vote -The Australian March 30 2012 
• Wayne Swan taps miners for surplus -Sid Maher The Australian March 30 2012
• Libs challenge Swan on yet more warnings -Ehssan Veiszadeh Canberra Times March 30 2012
• Mixed messages but childcare rebate to escape means test -Phillip Coorey SMH March 30 2012 
• Childcare rebate to escape tough budget cuts -Michelle Graftan SMH March 30 2012 
• Bump Up The Dole -Herald Sun March 30 2012 
• Living off $35 a day isn't enough: sector -Lema Samandar and Miles Godfrey Ninemsn March 29 2012 
• Urgent call to increase the dole -ABC News March 29 2012 
• Young Aborigines push for`yes' to recognition -Patricia Karvelas The Australian March 29 2012 
• Swan 'has warned of tough budget before' -AAP Ehssan Veiszadeh March 29 2012 
• Swan stands by super increase, says budget is about ‘strong community' -Madeleine Heffernan Smart Company March 29 2012 
• Swan urges national debate -AAP SMH March 29 2012 
• Dole 'must increase to save poor' -AAP March 29 2012
• More Action needed on Housing Storages AAP March 29 2012 
• Swan sets up cuts to protect surplus -Phillip Coorey Brisbane Times March 29 2012 
• Living off $35 a day isn't enough: sector - Yahoo 7 News March 29 2012
• Urgent Call to Increase the Dole - 702 ABC Sydney March 29 2012
• Living off $35 a day isnt enough ACOSS | SBS World News, March 29 2012
• Low Benefits Curse is a long legacy of poverty - The Age March 28 2012
• Constant price rises hurting families, pensioners -Matt Johnston The Advertiser March 28 2012 
• Aussie Dreams Start to Sour -Jeff Whaley March 28 2012 
• Nation's most needy missing out on essentials -Adele Horin SMH March 27 2012 
• Swan reinforces surplus pledge -AAP Yahoo7 March 25 2012 
• Mission to help those in need -Louis White The Australian March 24 2012
• National Compact Two Years On - Pro Bono Thursday, March 22, 2012
• The perils of casual work: the world is not their roster - Ava Hubble, Crikey Wednesday March 21 2012
• Cox: how to continue bad indigenous policy-making - Eva Cox Crikey Wednesday March 21 2012
• It's come to this. Each pension increase is now twice each dole increase - Peter Martin The Age March 20 2012
• ACOSS NGO Media Forum - A Communication Must - Pro Bono: Tuesday, March 20 2012
• Unemployed short-changed by 20 cents per day increase - Welfare Rights NetworK, March 20 2012
• Pay rise not enough for pensioners - Kylie Simmonds ABC PM Program Monday, March 19 2012
• Budget cuts to continue - Mark Riley Seven Nightly News, 7 Friday March 16 2012 WATCH >>
• Employers say ACTU wage claim will cost jobs - Michael Janda ABC PM Program Friday, March 16 2012 ACOSS CEO, Cassandra Goldie interviewed - LISTEN >>
• Unions, business renew wage claim battle - Simon Santow ABC News March 16 2012
• Balance fair wages with economy: govt - AAP Ninemsn March 16 2012
• Indigenous and welfare groups slam NT intervention - AAP SMH March 15 2012
• Treasurer to Open ACOSS Conference - Pro Bono March 13 2012
• Put your money where your mouth is on dental health reform - Dr Cassandra Goldie On Line Opinion Monday March 12 2012
• ACOSS hits out at intervention - Stuart Rintoul The Australian March 10 2012
• Scrap NT intervention laws: Vinnies' chief - Lisa Martin AAP SMH March 6 2012
• Opposition to Stronger Futures Bill strengthens - ABC News, March 06 2012
• ACOSS Campaign On Newstart Surges Ahead - Pro Bono: Tuesday, March 6 2012
• NewStart allowance gap grows wider - Peter Martin SMH March 6 2012
• Not for Profits Welcome ACNC Extension - Pro Bono March 1 2012 - 14:20

January & February 2012

• Mark Arbib lingered too long - Angela Priestley, The Power Index, 28 February 2012
• ACOSS Praise for Departing Senator Mark Arbib - Pro Bono Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 10:06
• Parliament House protest to call for repeal of NT intervention - Green Left Weekly Tuesday, February 28, 2012
• Jobless need a living wage, not just a $50 rise to the dole - Green Left Weekly - 23 Feb 2012
• Jobless need a living wage, not just a $50 rise to the dole - The Socialist Alliance statement Feb 23, 2012
• Small business to pay super increase: ACCI - Ninemsn - 22 Feb 2012
• Aboriginal leaders reject NT intervention - Lisa Martin AAP SMH February 21, 2012
• Top earners the big winners from super tax concessions - Peter Martin SMH February 20 2012
• Super tax benefits help rich get richer and leave poor with nothing, says ACOSS - Peter Martin SMH/The Age February 20, 2012
• Rebate reform will deliver a healthier bottom line - By Ross Peake The Canberra Times February 16, 2012
• United Call for Increase to Income Support Allowances - ACOSS Campaign - Pro Bono Australia - 15 Feb 2012
• ACOSS Hails Means Testing of Private Health Insurance Rebate - Pro Bono Australia - 14 Feb 2012
• Lift the dole, backbenchers urge caucus - Dan Harrison and Richard Willingham The Age/SMH February 7, 2012
• Labor MPs seek rise in jobless allowance - AAP Herald Sun February 06, 2012
• Policy priorities for 2012: jobs and services - ABC Online - 5 Feb 2012
• Closing the pay gap for social and community sector workers - Daily Telegraph February 02, 2012
• Women rejoice over equal pay - Herald Sun February 02, 20140 years on and the equal pay gaps continue - Eva Cox, Crikey 2 Feb 2012
• Closing the pay gap for social and community sector workers - Alison McMeekin and Henry Budd The Daily Telegraph February 02, 2012
• Women rejoice over equal pay - Stephen Drill Herald Sun February 02, 2012
• Fair Work orders pay rise for community sector - ABC News February 01, 2012 Watch ABC TV News story >>
• Pay decision a win for women: ASU - AAP/SMH February 1, 2012
• Big rise in equal pay case - Ben Schneiders The Canberra Times 01 Feb, 2012
• Fair Work orders pay rise for community sector - ABC News February 01, 2012
• Community workers celebrate equal pay decision - Luke Waters SBS TV News 01 February 2012 Watch SBS TV Story >>
• Pay decision a win for women - ASU - AAP/SMH February 1, 2012 
• Big rise in equal pay case - The Canberra Times 01 Feb, 2012 
• Big rises awarded to social and community sector workers in equal pay ruling - The Australian February 01, 2012 
• Community workers celebrate equal pay decision - SBS TV News 01 February 2012
• Equal Pay Decision "Milestone" - NFPs - Pro Bono Australia - 31 Jan 2012
• Short-term super tinkering will cost big time later - Jennifer Hewett, The Australian, January 31, 2012
• Cut tax breaks for seniors to keep surplus, says ACOSS -SMH January 12, 2012
• Shorten warned there's no running from dole reform - The Australian January 12, 2012 
• Life on the dole a trauma, says Lib - The Age/SMH 15 Jan 2012
• Savings can cover new social programs - AAP SMH January 11, 2012
• Welfare Panel - ABC Radio National Breakfast, Tuesday 17 January 2012. Panel included: Cassandra Goldie, Judith Sloan, and Peter Whiteford.
• Newstart needs a boost - Judith Sloan, The Australian

Media Highlights 2011

November & December 2011

• Charities concerned regulator being rushed through - PM, ABC Radio National, December 15, 2011
• Cox: Stronger Futures demands are un-Australian - Eva Cox, Crikey, December 2, 2011
• Disability scheme lacking key funds - Fleur Anderson, Australian Financial Review, December 2, 2011
• Problem Gambling: ACOSS and the Federal Budget - Radio Adelaide, December 1, 2011
• Stay-at-home mums cry foul on baby bonus - Stephen Lunn and Sue Dunlevy The Australian November 30, 2011
• Backlash brews as parents hit where it hurts - Fleur Anderson Australian Financial Review, November 30, 2011
• Spending cuts draw mixed reviews - Ross Peake The Canberra Times November 30, 2011
• Welfare fears for families as Treasurer Wayne Swan slashes baby bonus - Anna Caldwell and Sophie Elsworth The Courier-Mail November 30, 2011
• It's income management on steroids, say Greens - National Indigenous Times, November 30, 2011
• Spending cuts draw mixed reviews - Ross Peake The Canberra Times 30 Nov, 2011
• Welfare sector slams baby bonus decision - AAP Ninemsn Tue Nov 29 2011
• Welfare fears for families as Treasurer Wayne Swan slashes baby bonus - Anna Caldwell and Sophie Elsworth The Courier-Mail November 30, 2011
• Stay-at-home mums cry foul on baby bonus - Stephen Lunn and Sue Dunlevy The Australian November 30, 2011
• ACOSS slams govt's baby bonus decision - SKY News Australia Tuesday November 29, 2011
• PS cuts 'hypocritical' - The Canberra Times 28 Nov, 2011
• Welfare sector slams baby bonus decision - AAP Ninemsn November 29, 2011
• ACOSS slams govt's baby bonus decision - SKY News Australia November 29, 2011
• PS cuts 'hypocritical' - The Canberra Times November 28, 2011
• Cox: whatever happened to Labor and egalitarianism? The no fair-go - Eva Cox, Crikey November 28, 2011
• Hunger makes a poor incentive - Adele Horin, SMH, November 26, 2011
• 'Income management on steroids' on the way - Lisa Martin AAP /SMH/The Age/Canberra Times November 23, 2011
• Calculate the carbon tax - Katharyn Bryne, Yass Tribune, November 23, 2011
• Non-profit groups undertake gender survey - AAP Ninemsn November 18, 2011
• Hidden hunger in Australia - Australia Talks, ABC Radio National November 15, 2011
• At last, gender pay gap set to narrow - Editorial, The Age, November 14, 2011
• Carbon tax hit small: CSIRO - Stephanie Peatling, SMH November 13, 2011
• At $9 a family, it's not all doom and gloom - Michael Bachelard The Age, November 13, 2011
• Beer fridges targeted in battle to reduce household carbon emissions - Renee Viellaris The Sunday Mail (Qld) November 13, 2011
• Climate wowsers say 'give up beer fridge' - Sarah Crawford NT News, November 13, 2011
• Community workers concerned about pay rise 'funding gap' - Milanda Rout, The Australian, November 11, 2011
• Cox: wheels slowly in motion for equal pay for women - Eva Cox, Crikey, November 11, 2011
• Region being hit by housing stress - Rosita Gallach, Launceston Examiner, November 9, 2011

October

• Newstart needs a boost - Judith Sloan Onion pice in The Drum Monday 31 October 2011
• Wealth divide near crisis point: reports - New Zealand Herald Oct 25, 2011
• Call to lift Newstart payments - AAP SMH October 21, 2011
• ACOSS calls for increase in income support - AAP SMH Oct 21 2011
• Green groups get $3m from ALP's largesse - Sid Maher and Lanai Vasek The Australian October 18, 2011
• Tax Reform For All - Not Just The Rich - By Cassandra Goldie Mew Matilda Oct 11, 2011
• ACMA to cut cost of calling 1800 and 13/1300 numbers from mobiles - ITWire
• Mobile racket stopped so that 'free means free' - Asher Moses SMH/The Age October 11, 2011
• Benefit system to be a burden, says academic - By Siobhain Ryan The Australian, October 6, 2011
• Tax forum ends with more tax reviews - Sabra Lane ABC PM Program October 5, 2011 
• Maybe there's a point to all the tax talk - Don Woolford AAP SMH October 5, 2011
• Unemployed left to live on less than $17 a day - Peter Martin The Age October 6, 2011
• Tax forum - Australia Talks ABC Radio National Wednesday October 6, 2011
• Unemployment Benefits - 7.30 ABC TV Wednesday October 6, 2011
• Welfare payments crisis looms - tax expert AAP The Australian October 5, 2011
• Warning that tax rates will have to rise to cope with welfare crisis - James Massola and Lanai Vasek The Australian Oct 5, 2011
• Tax Forum - ABC 7.30 Stephen Long Tuesday October 4, 2011
• Higher taxes for baby boomers among proposals at tax forum - The Advertiser October 05, 2011
• Treasurer Wayne Swan tells states to pull their weight - The Courier Mail Paul Osborne AAP October 04, 2011
• Community Sector Outlines National Tax Forum Wishlist - Pro Bono October 4, 2011
• Risk-free debate getting nowhere - by: George Megalogenis The Australian October 05, 2011
• Tax Forum - Labor blamed for economy concern - by: Patrick Lion The Daily Telegraph October 05, 2011 
• Business calls for Henry reform progress - AAP SMH October 4, 2011
• Everyone benefits from corp tax cut: Henry - AAP October 4, 2011
• ACOSS seeks fairer deal on taxes - AAP SMH Oct 3 2011
• Swan tells states 'reform your backyard' - AAP October 03, 2011
• Industry lobbies in conflicting quests over tax reform - Siobhain Ryan The Australian October 04, 2011
• Your guide to the tax summit - Peter Martin The Age October 4, 2011 
• Overwhelming call to cut tax and raise GST - The Advertiser October 03, 2011
• Give tax breaks to those most in need - Jessica Irvine SMH October 1, 2011

September

• Land is the best hope for fixing tax system - Jessica Irvine SMH September 30, 2011
• Surviving on Newstart - ABC RN Life Matters 20 September 2011
• Diminishing dole a 'ticking time bomb' - Peter Martin The Age SMH Sept 19, 2011
• Newstart and pension gap widens - Herald Sun AAP Mon Sep 19 2011
• Push for Wayne Swan to raise GST rate - Siobhain Ryan The Australian Sept 19, 2011
• Why Does Tax Reform Matter to the Community Sector? - Pro Bono Thursday, Sept 15, 2011
• National Tax Forum Must Consider Social Equity: VCOSS - Pro Bono Sept 15, 2011
• Project needs defined identity - Craig Mathieson The Age Sept 15, 2011
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's shock tactics - Karen Collier Herald Sun Sept 14, 2011
• Power costs mean consumers must get used to shocks - Brian Robins SMH Sept 13, 2011
• Asylum-seeker policy unholy: Greens - Andrea Hayward SMH AAP Sept 11, 2011
• Charities call for onshore processing - Seven News Sept 08, 2011
• Advocates condemn refugee 'scaremongering' - Herald Sun September 08, 2011 (Roslyn Dundas)
• Community Sector Calls for New Approach to Asylum Seekers - Pro Bono Sept 08, 2011
• Charities take out ad for asylum seekers - Radio Australia Breakfast program 8 Sep 2011
• Community sector ad calls for new approach to asylum seekers - 7PM Project Network 10 Sept 08, 2011
• Australia needs a new approach to asylum seekers and refugees -Ad in The Australian Sept 08, 2011
• No bull: Red Bull Mobile offers unlimited calls to 1300 and 1800 numbers - ITWire Sept 07, 2011
• High Court decision praised - Catholic Leader Sept 07, 2011
• Disabled people set up to fail: charities - AAP The Australian Online Sept 06, 2011
• Charities call for onshore processing - AAP MSN Mon Sep 5 2011
• STW Group grows a green arm for lobbying - Nic Christensen  The Australian Sept 05, 2011 (former head of ACOSS Andrew Johnson)

August

• Removal of dental funds a disaster, experts say - Amy Corderoy SMH August 30, 2011 (NCOSS quoted)
• Rob Oakeshott tells ACTU to put up or shut up - Siobhain Ryan The Australian August 30, 2011 (Julian Disney TaxWatch)
• Gillard holds hope for change on indigenous disadvantage - Lauren Wilson The Australian August 26, 2011
• Calls for community carbon compensation - The Canberra Times 24 Aug, 2011
• Pension up but jobless struggle - Peter Martin The Age August 22, 2011
• Warnings in welfare data - Editorial Newcastle Herald 17 Aug, 2011
• Calls for welfare revision - Channel 10 ACOSS survey story, Monday August 15, 2011
• Social services rethink needed to prevent UK style riots here - Naomi Woodley ABC AM Monday, August 15, 2011 
• Survey reveals increase in welfare assistance - ABC RN with Fran Kelly Monday, August 15, 2011 
• Need for welfare on rise but can't be met, say agencies - Stephen Lunn, The Australian August 15, 2011
• Welfare sector in crisis as thousands turned away - Kelsey Munro SMH August 15, 2011
• 'Complex needs' stretch welfare wait lists - Michelle Griffin The Age August 15, 2011