Media Release: Fifteenth NTCOSS Cost of Living Report

Latest NTCOSS Cost of Living Report Renews Calls for Increase to Newstart/Youth Allowance and Broadening of Concession Eligibility The 15th Cost of Living Report released today by the Northern Territory Council of Social Service (NTCOSS) provides a general CPI update...
NTCOSS Cost of Living Report: Concessions and the Cost of Living

NTCOSS Cost of Living Report: Concessions and the Cost of Living

Calls renewed to increase Newstart and extend concessions to all Health Care Card holders in the Northern Territory: NTCOSS report. The 14th Cost of Living Report released by the Northern Territory Council of Social Service (NTCOSS) today highlights that the costs of...
Congratulations Making Justice Work

Congratulations Making Justice Work

on being awarded the 2016 NT Human Rights Award for Justice…… On 7 December, Wendy Morton and Priscilla Collins proudly accepted the NT Human Rights award for Justice (organisations and groups) on behalf of the Making Justice Work coalition. Making Justice...
NTCOSS Cost of Living Report: Concessions and the Cost of Living

NT Government delivers on non-government sector partnerships

Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison today announced an additional $340 000 per annum for one of the Territory’s longest-established not for profit social justice advocacy groups, the Northern Territory Council of Social Services (NTCOSS). “This year NTCOSS celebrate...
Child Poverty on the Rise

Child Poverty on the Rise

ACOSS releases a new report showing that 731,300 children or 17.4% of all children in Australia are living in poverty, an increase of 2 percentage points over the past 10 years (from 2004-2014)…….The report finds that nearly three million people were...