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NTCOSS/ DFSV Joint Submission Victims of Crime Reform
Victims of Crime reforms Preamble The following submission represents the views of a range of domestic, family and sexual violence services and networks in the Northern Territory (NT). The following organisations and networks contributed to this...
NTCOSS Submission to the Northern Territory Draft Risk Based Licensing Framework
NTCOSS wishes to thank the Northern Territory Government for endorsing recommendation 2.4.1 of the Alcohol Policies and Legislation Review (Riley Review 2017) and for providing an opportunity for public comment on the draft risk-based licensing (RBL) framework. While...
Consultations on the Development of a NT Gender Equality Framework
Feedback on Consultations for the Development of a Northern Territory Gender Equality Framework The Northern Territory Council of Social Service (NTCOSS) welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department of Territory Families – Office of Gender Equity and...
NTCOSS report calls on NT Government to index the Motor Vehicle Registration Concession to assist with cost of living pressures
The 22nd Cost of Living Report released today by the Northern Territory Council of Social Service (NTCOSS) focuses on sky-rocketing petrol prices and other transport cost pressures. Surge in transport costs hitting hardest on lowest income households in...
NTCOSS report calls on NT Government to index the Motor Vehicle Registration Concession to assist with cost of living pressures
The 22nd Cost of Living Report released today by the Northern Territory Council of Social Service (NTCOSS) focuses on sky-rocketing petrol prices and other transport cost pressures. Surge in transport costs hitting hardest on lowest income households in...
NTCOSS Pre Budget Submission 2019-2020
NTCOSS Pre Budget Submission 2019 – 2020 Dear Chief Minister Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with the 2019 – 2020 Northern Territory Council of Social Service Inc (NTCOSS) Pre Budget Submission (PBS). NTCOSS is a peak body for the community sector in the...
NTCOSS Submission on the NT Government Revenue Review Discussion Paper
NTCOSS Submission on the NT Government Revenue Review Discussion Paper, November 2017 First published in February 2018 by the Northern Territory Council of Social Service. Introduction As a peak non-government representative body for the health and...
NT coalition of health, justice and social services wholly rejects calls to reinstate Alcohol Mandatory Treatment and to scrap the floor price on alcohol
AMSANT, APO NT, Making Justice Work, NAAJA and NTCOSS wholly reject calls from Independent MLAs Robyn Lambley and Terry Mills to reinstate Alcohol Mandatory Treatment (AMT) and to scrap the floor price on alcohol. The organisations strongly condemn the NT Opposition...
NTCOSS AGM
Northern Territory Council of Social Service Inc Annual General Meeting with Guest Speaker Dr Cassandra Goldie 11.30am - 1.00pm on Tuesday 9 October 2018 Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO of Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), Q&A regular, and ex-Darwin resident...
NT income boosted by $58m per year if Newstart and Youth Allowance rates are raised, plus much needed cost of living relief to low-income Territorians
The 21st NTCOSS Cost of Living Report released today, coincides with the release earlier this week of a report by Deloitte Access Economics, commissioned by ACOSS. The Deloitte report found that increasing the base rate of Newstart and Youth Allowance by $75 per week...