NTCOSS Pre Budget Submission 2016-2017
NTCOSS is a peak body for the community sector in the NT and is a voice for people affected by social and economic disadvantage and inequality. The community sector in the NT is made up of community managed, non-government, not for profit organisations who work in...
Using a higher GST to pay for income tax cuts is a ‘recipe for more inequality, with higher income earners the winners’
The Australian Council of Social Service today released new modelling from the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) to show what an increase in the GST to 15% would mean for households across the community. The NATSEM modelling also shows what ...‘Sick with worry report: People’s desire to participate shines through’
The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council has marked Anti-Poverty Week 2015 with the launch of the ‘Sick with worry…’ containing stories from the front-line of inequality and 14 recommendations for urgent action by the Federal Government to help enable people...
Tennant Creek Transport
Tennant Creek Transport (TCT) launches a New Disability Friendly Bus – which will now operate on the fixed Bus Route Service around the town of Tennant Creek which is the only public transport in town. Tennant Creek has no taxi. The members of TCT, a non-profit...