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MEDIA RELEASE: Bad politics won’t deliver safer community
TUESDAY 23 March 2021 Bad politics won’t deliver safer community Today’s announcement by the Gunner Government won’t deliver a safer community, but...
Submission: Inquiry into the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Income Support) Bill 2021
Click here to access this submission as a PDF 5 March 2021 Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Via email: community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au Dear Committee Secretary, Submission: Inquiry into the Social...
Deborah Di Natale speaks to ABC Darwin about Jobseeker and Asylum Seekers in Detention in Darwin
NTCOSS CEO Deborah Di Natale spoke to Adam Steer on ABC Darwin about the Government’s decision to keep Territorians on JobSeeker below the poverty line, living on less than $44 a day. They also discussed the ongoing detention of 15 asylum seekers near the Darwin...
MEDIA RELEASE: Mercure Hotel must accept responsibility for its role in Detention of the Darwin 15
MERCURE HOTEL MUST ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS ROLE IN DETENTION OF THE DARWIN 15 Today the Northern Territory Council of Social Service (NTCOSS) called for a boycott of the Mercure chain, and in particular the Mercure Darwin Airport Resort, for its role in the...
Deborah Di Natale speaks to ABC Alice Springs about youth crime, and proposed changes to JobSeeker
NTCOSS CEO Deborah Di Natale spoke to Alex Barwick on ABC Alice Springs about the need to keep youth justice measures and responses to crime focussed on what the evidence shows actually delivers for the community. TRANSCRIPT : ABC ALICE SPRINGS MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2021...
NTCOSS Pre Budget Submission 2021 – 2022 December 2020
NTCOSS Pre Budget Submission 2021 – 2022 December 2020 The 2021 – 22 Northern Territory (NT) Budget will be delivered in a time of economic uncertainty and an ongoing global health crisis. The pressure on the NT social and community sector to provide support...
MEDIA RELEASE: Latest police violence video reinforces need for the AJA
TUESDAY 15 DECEMBER One more piece of damning evidence to support the need for the Aboriginal Justice Agreement. The video of police brutality at the Alice Springs watch house is both sickening and unsurprising, says the co-chairs of the Aboriginal Justice Agreement,...
MEDIA RELEASE: Grants to strengthen youth advocacy across Australia
Senator the Hon Richard Colbeck Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians Minister for Youth and Sport 14 December 2020 Grants to strengthen youth advocacy across Australia Young people will have more say on the issues that matter to them...
MEDIA RELEASE: Community organisations slam decision to continue discriminatory and punitive Cashless Debit Card
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak organisations, legal services and human rights organisations have slammed the decision of the Morrison Government and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party, with the abstention of the Centre Alliance in the Senate giving...
Open Letter to the Woolworths Chair on the Darwin Dan Murphy’s
NTCOSS is one of 45 signatories for an open letter to Woolworths Chair, Gordon Cairns. The letter appears in the Wednesday 9 December edition of the Australian Financial Review. Read the letter and view the signatories here.