ACOSS in the News | 2011

This page contains links to stories and articles from 2011 that mention ACOSS or relate to our work.

November & December

• 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, 201
• Union Outcry over Swan’s public service cuts – ABC November 29 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
• Government backs social sector pay rise – Jeremy Thompson November 10 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

June

• Efficiency begins at home – Lauren Solomon, Clean Energy Council, Climate Spectator 23 Jun 2011
• Vinnies CEO Sleep Out 2011 in Chilly Conditions – Pro Bono 16 June, 2011
• Budget cuts ‘will hurt poorer families’ – Matt Johnston Herald Sun 16 June, 2011
• Govt accused of rushing family changes – SMH Susanna Dunkerley 15 June, 2011
• Pay key to keeping public sector staff – Ben Schneiders The Age June 8, 2011
• Not-for-Profits, Charities, tax-exemptions and paying tax in Australia – Sunday Nights Presented by John Cleary on ABC Local Radio, 5 June. Panel discussion, includes: Bill Shorten, Robert Fitzgerald, Tessa Boyd-Cine, David Crosbie, and Lin Hatfield-Dodds.
• Less disability pension recipients attempt work, Sue Dunlevy, 6 June, Australian
• Business says wage increase is unaffordable‎ – ABC PM program, Simon Schrapel 3 June
• ‘Disability rort’ – Today Tonight story, Michael Bleasdale interviewed, 2 June
• Garnaut model ‘promotes wealth redistribution’ – Stephen Lunn, The Australian June 02, 2011
• No one satisfied by long-awaited release of Garnaut climate report – The Australian June 01, 2011
• Garnaut Review 2011: The response, Business Spectator, 1 June, 2011

May

• Garnaut pushes for carbon price of $26 a tonne – ABC PM May 31, 2011
• Murdoch v Murdoch in climate change ad stoush – Crikey May 31, 2011
• Compromise on carbon tax – Lenore Taylor & Tom Arup SMH/The Age May 31, 2011
• Greens a party to dental brush-off – The Courier-Mail, May 30, 2011
• Cassandra Goldie and Lisa Fowkes on Tony Delroy’s Nightlife – ABC Local Radio, 25 May, 2011
• All eyes on Shorten as not-for-profits begin new journey – By David Crosbie, The Canberra Times 25 May, 2011
• Don’t discount the power of efficiency – John Thwaites & Rob Murray-Leach, Climate Spectator 25 May
• Energy sellers may have to help customers cut use – Lenore Taylor SMH May 25, 2011
• Carbon tax lobbyists seek poor relief – Adam Morton and Tom Arup The Age May 25, 2011
• Mollycoddling jobless is not compassionate – Cassandra Wilkinson Opinion piece in The Australian May 24, 2011
• Labor’s lick and promise to beached job-seekers – Ross Gittins article, Monday 23 May 2011
• Carers are deserving of pay rise – The Courier-Mail May 19, 2011
• Meet the new poor – The Westender, 18 May 2011
• Pay ruling a ‘milestone’ for women – Ben Schneiders The Age, 17 May, 2011
• Fear of cut in services as women win pay rise – BY Ross Peak, The Canberra Times, 17 May, 2011
• Welfare sector wants equal pay promise – Susanna Dunkerley AAP SMH May 17, 2011
• Optimism and Caution After Pay Equity Win – ‎Pro Bono Australia – 17 May 2011
• Wrong to push welfare into work: ACOSS – Perth Now – 17 May 2011
• Community workers are underpaid: tribunal‎ – AAP SMH 16 May, 2011
• A budget for billionaires – Green Left Weekly, 16 May 2011
• Budget panel on SKY News Australia with David Speers – The Nation and panel discussion on 12 & 13 May 2011
  Panel included: Tim Reed, CEO, MYOB; Cassandra Goldie, Head, Australian Council of Social Service; Jennifer Westacott, Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia; and David Oliver, National Secretary, Australian Manufacturers and workers union.
• Families hit with ‘class war’ taxes under Gillard Government’s first Budget – Phillip Hudson and Matt Johnston Herald Sun May 12, 2011
• Canberra Conference Unit, Canberra Press Conference: 11 May 2011
  Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and colleagues holds a Press Conference at the Senate Courtyard to respond to the Federal Budget which was handed down last night. Dr Goldie introduces her members which included: John Falzon – St Vincent de Paul, Sam Page – Family Relationships Services Australia, Therese Edwards – National Council for Single Mothers & Children, Paul O’Callahan – Catholic Social Services, Maria Halloran – National Welfare Rights Network, Brad Halse – Salvation Army, Lyn Hatfield-Dodds – Uniting Care, Dean Barton-Smith –  Chairperson, Australian Federation of Disability Organisations and Nicole Lawder – Homelessness Australia.
• Cassandra Goldie Budget preview and response on ABC News 24 Breakfast with Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland 11 & 12 May, 2011. Interviews on ABC News Radio, SBS, ABC, Channel 7, 9, 10 TV News stories on the Budget, 11 May 2011.
• 7.30 Leigh Sales Budget Reaction Cassandra Goldie and Heather Ridout – 10 May 2011
• All hands on deck: Swan – The West Australian May 11, 2011
• Swan tightens screws – Michelle Grattan The Age SMH May 11, 2011
• Boost for mental health applauded – AAP The Courier Mail 11 May 2011
• Welfare Reform in a Tight Budget‎ – Pro Bono Australia, May 11 2011
• Welfare measures unnecessary: ACOSS – AAP Ninemsn – 10 May 2011
• ACOSS: Budgetary measures welcome, but more can be done – Third Sector Magazine – 10 May 2011
• Groups question ‘tough-love’ welfare‎ – AAP SMH 10 May 2011
• 50000 sole parents hit by welfare measures – Sydney Morning Herald – Adele Horin – 11 May 2011
• Welfare cuts among the hardest decisions: Swan‎ – Lateline May 10, 2011
• NFP Regulator Needs State Government Support – Pro Bono Australia – 10 May 2011
• Mental health funding welcomed – Herald Sun – 10 May 2011
• Budget preview on Tony Delroy’s Nightlife ABC Local Radio 9 May 2011
• Gillard has to get down and dirty over carbon tax row – By Michelle Grattan The Sunday Age 8 May 2011
• ACCAN tries again to cut costs of mobile calls to 13 & 1800 numbers – iTWire – Stuart Corner – 8 May 2011
• Jobs growth shatters the myths of welfare – Adele Horin 7 May, 2011
• Families to miss benefit boost for teens – Sue Dunlevy The Australian 6 May, 2011
• Julia Gillard defiant on welfare plan to force teenage mums back to work or training – The Courier-Mail, 6 May, 2011
• Former POWs win benefits in budget splurge – BY Peter Jean The Canberra Times 6 May, 2011
• PM’s plan may not benefit teen mums – Matt Johnston Herald Sun 6 May, 2011
• Smarter budget cuts? Government to target the usual suspects – Eva Cox Crikey 6 May 2011
• ‘Toughen rules on teenage mums’ – Patricia Karvelas, The Australian – 5 May 2011
• Greens, welfare groups query budget plan – Paul Osborne, AAP 5 May, 2011
• Greens set their own carbon price – Tom Arup SMH May 5, 2011
• Westpac joins carbon tax revolt – Scott Murdoch – Sid Maher The Australian – 4 May 2011
• Seen but not heard – ALR: Peter Shergold The Australian May 04, 2011
• Teenage mums policy could backfire, warn welfare groups – ABC PM Wendy Carlisle 5 May, 2011 18:26:00
• Welfare clampdown warning – Ruth Williams, The Sunday Age May 1, 2011
• Middle class, middle income and caught in the cross-hairs as Labor turns its sights on a welfare crackdown – The Sunday Age May 1, 2011

April

• Welfare clampdown warning – Ruth Williams, The Age – 30 Apr 2011
• Charity group backs welfare crackdown – Phillip Coorey SMH 29 April, 2011
• Welfare chief rejects lobby pleas – Sue Dunlevy, The Australian – 28 Apr 2011
• Welfare crackdown is ‘populist rhetoric’ – ABC Online Apr 28, 2011
• Budget to take aim at skills shortage – Michelle Grattan, ‎The Age, 28 Apr 2011
• Major charity backs tough welfare reform – AM ABC Program, 29 April 2011
• Sector Crisis Meeting On Budget – Pro Bono Australia – 27 Apr 2011
• Service sector ‘undervalued’ – Wyndham Weekly – Sharon Green – 26 Apr 2011
• Reporting Social Services: Who Really Cares? – ABC Radio National Big Ideas 24 April 2011
• Labor worries as PM struggles – Ben Packham The Australian April 19, 2011
• Action on climate will hurt: Windsor – April 19 2011
• Labor battens down as climate gets cloudy – By Paul Osborne, AAP Apr 18 2011
• Carbon Price Will Hit NFPs: Greens – Pro Bono Monday, April 18, 2011
• Carbon price: welfare sector demands more protection of low income earners – ABC RN Breakfast – 18 April 2011
• Business ramps up carbon tax campaign – Naomi Woodley AM April 18, 2011
• Carbon tax backlash – Hack Triple J John Barrington 18 April 2011
• Labor MPs urge Julia Gillard to act quickly on carbon to limit the political pain – The Australian April 18, 2011
• Carbon assistance must be tailored: ACOSS – AAP April 18, 2011
• Government, Business Support Critical to Breaking Welfare Dependancy – Pro Bono Monday, April 18, 2011
• Carbon price dissent rises along with former leaders – Phillip Coorey, Peter Martin – SMH The Age April 18, 2011
• Food sector demands carbon pledge – Peter Martin April 18, 2011 The Age
• Why politicians think they’re on a winner with welfare – Michael Bachelard Sunday Age April 17, 2011
• ABC PM Program – More carrots fewer sticks for long-term unemployed – Alison Caldwell, April 14, 2011
• ABC World Today – Welfare reform wish-list won’t come cheap – Simon Lauder Thursday, April 14, 2011
• ABC News 24 – Afternoon Live: 14 Apr 2011 Compere: Kim Landers
• Coalition attacks PM’s welfare-to-work bid – Matthew Franklin The Australian April 15, 2011
• Welfare debate sliding into a blame game, says UnitingCare – Phillip Coorey SMH April 15, 2011
• Welfare groups say push is needed to lift jobless skills – Phillip Hudson Herald Sun April 15, 2011
• Cutbacks sought to clear jobless queue – Courier Mail By John McCarthy, 15 April 2011
• Welfare sector says invest, not punish JOBLESS DEBATE – Canberra Times, By David Mclennar, 15 April 2011
• Rhetoric helps votes, not people: welfare groups – ABC Apr 14, 2011
• Welfare reform wishlist won’t come cheap – ABC April 14 2011
• Welfare groups applaud Combet pledge on assistance – Lauren Wilson From: The Australian April 14, 2011
• Opposition targets carbon compo plan – Paul Osborne, AAP Senior Political Writer April 13, 2011 – 6:39PM AAP
• There’s only 12 affordable rental properties in WA: Anglicare – Lucy Rickard West Australian April 15, 2011
• Rental squeeze hits hard as cheaper housing dries up – Adele Horin SMH April 14, 2011
• Australians support equal-pay test case – AAP April 12, 2011
• Support for Community Sector Pay Increase Overwhelming -Poll – PRO Bono, April 12, 2011
• Families fear their tax breaks will go – Sean Parnell and Siobhain Ryan The Australian April 12, 2011
• ACOSS seeks end to middle-class welfare – AAP/SMH Susanna Dunkerley, Apr 7 2011
• Hockey in doghouse over trusts – Peter Martin SMH / The Age April 8, 2011
• Nats blast sees Hockey back down on trusts – Ben Packham and Sid Maher From: The Australian, April 08, 2011
• Hockey ignites debate on taxing trusts – Paul Osborne, AAP Senior Political Writer April 7, 2011
• Australia Talks – ‘Tackling unemployment’- ABC Radio National – Tuesday 5th April 2011 Guests: David Gregory (ACCI); Cassandra Goldie (ACOSS); Lisa Fowkes; Cr John Davis (Mayor, Orange City Council)
• AM Program ‘Consumers hit by food price rises’ – Monday 4th April 2011- Michael Edwards
• Benefits tighten to get more working – Sue Dunlevy The Australian April 6, 2011
• Consumers feel food price rises – ABC April 5 2011
• Detail of carbon compensation up in the air – Tom Arup, Peter Martin The Age / SMH April 4, 2011
• Carbon tax could cost households $860 – ABC Radio News Saturday April 2, 2011
• Meeting the participation challenge – The National Interest, ABC Radio National with Peter Mares, 1 April 2011
• Tax too hard but welfare in Abbott’s sights – Phillip Coorey SMH April 1, 2011
• Tony Abbott’s tough love welfare push – Stephen Lunn The Australian April 01, 2011

March

• Welfare sector dismisses Abbott’s reform ideas – ABC March 31 2011
• Abbott’s tough-love work plan – Denis Shanahan, The Australian March 31, 2011
  Tony Abbott has committed the Coalition to sweeping welfare reforms, including suspending unemployment benefits in areas where there is unskilled work available, such as cleaning and fruit picking, and making work for the dole mandatory for people under 50 who have been on unemployment benefits for more than six months.
• Putting unemployed back into the workforce – Tony Abbott The Australian March 31, 2011
  Here are four further economic reforms proposed by Tony Abbott:
  ? Making Work for the Dole mandatory for under 50s and receiving unemployment benefits for over six months.
  ? Quarantining to the necessities of life half the welfare income of all long-term unemployed people.
  ? Creating a new benefit for people whose disabilities can readily be treated.
  ? Suspending the payment of unemployment benefits in places where there are unfilled, unskilled jobs.
• Old Tony re-emerges to get real on policy – Dennis Shanahan, Political editor The Australian March 31, 2011
• Charities turning away needy – Michelle Griffin The Age March 28, 2011
• Charities feel pressure as prices soar – Adele Horin SMH March 28, 2011
• More Australian families feeling the pinch – Herald Sun March 27, 2011
• Pleas for help swamp charities – Andrew Trounson From: The Australian March 28, 2011
• Electricity rebates and cash benefits – Today Tonight Channel 7
• Gillard government plans tough new rules for job seekers – ABC RN Breakfast – 23 March 2011 – Maree O’Halloran
• Low unemployment rate ignores 2 million who want to work – Life Matters ABC RN 23 March 2011 Lisa Fowkes
• Lobby groups target tax forum – ABC Lateline Business Broadcast: 21 March 2011 Reporter: Phillip Lasker
• Carbon compensation for non-earners costly – Sid Maher The Australian March 19, 2011
• Tax forum to follow carbon and mining tax – Phillip Coorey March 21, 2011
• Verwer calls for clear stance on tax – AFR Ben Hurley 11 May 2011
• Welfare groups against income management – AAP Ninemsn Thu Mar 10 2011
• Housing & Homelessness: Advance or Retreat? Pro Bono Thursday, March 10, 2011
• Hockey calls for broader welfare quarantining– ABC Radio March 10, 2011
• Hockey in favour of welfare quarantining – Nine MSN and Herald Sun online Thu Mar 10 2011
• Hockey calls for welfare reform – ABC News Thursday 10th March 2011
• Fair wages for community workers – By Peter Shergold Centre for Social Impacts March 9, 2011
• We need detail on carbon tax: MPs – Sid Maher and Matthew Franklin The Australian, March 09, 2011
• Carbon pricing plan will hit the well-paid – Siobhain Ryan The Australian, March 09, 2011
• Community Sector Wages Group Announced as Pay Equity Decision Approaches – Pro Bono, March 4, 2011
• Blowout in long-term unemployed – Ben Schneiders The Age March 1, 2011

January & February

• Non-for-profit organisations ‘need a national regulator’– The Australian,  28 February 2011
• Gillard’s carbon tax warm up – NZ Herald Monday 28 February 2011
• Banking on an overdue change – SMH Saturady 26 February 2011
• Gillard plans FY13 carbon price – Business Spectator, 25 February 2011
• Businesses fear blowout cost of carbon plan – AAP 24 February 2011
• Families will be worse off under Julia Gillard’s emissions trading scheme for carbon – Daily Tele 25 Feb 2011
• PM’s broken promises to cost – Daily Telegraph Friday 25 February 2011
• Carbon price welcomed despite lack of detail – ABC PM 24 February 2011
• Australia’s new carbon tax – 7.30 Report 24 February 2011
• Housing affordability crisis deepens for locals – Byron Echo 25 February 2011
• Neoliberalism degrades disabled – On Line Opinion February 22, 2011
• Treasury gears up for fresh tax reform during June summit – The Australian 22 Feb, 2011
• Govt deal with Greens to shore up levy support – The Canberra Times
• Victory on Rental Affordability Scheme – Pro Bono
• Number of long-term jobless rises – The Age
• PM emphasises ‘dignity at work’– The Australian
• Welfare wants say on rebuilding – The Australian
• ALP Left figure warns Julia Gillard against hitting families with welfare cuts – The Australian
• Julia Gillard overwhelmed and needs confidence, says Graham Richardson – Herald Sun
• Affordable rent scheme cut to pay for disaster relief – SMH February 9, 2011
• Labor MPs quiz Gillard on welfare reforms – SMH
• Govt remains coy on welfare cut speculation – Business Spectator
• Politicians decide on flood levy this week – ABC AM
• Charities say floods levy critical – SMH
• Swan warns of food price spike – SMH
• Government advised to take care with flood levy – ABC
• Community Sector Wage Hearings Underway – Pro Bono