Media Releases

We're helping train young job seekers for long and rewarding careers in Victoria’s booming community sector.

Default pricing is a significant and very justified intervention in the Victorian energy market.

This is a budget which largely delivers the policy platform Labor took to the state election.

Kate Colvin from Council to Homeless Persons shares budget priorities that can help thousands of Victorians facing homelessness.

All kids in Victoria should be able to get to school, wherever they live and whatever their families’ circumstances.

Victorian energy retailers are attempting to block power users from getting a fairer priced deal, the state's peak social advocacy

Victoria doesn’t have to settle for the title of Australia’s most progressive state. We can be Australia’s fairest state, too.

VCOSS is urging the State Government to take significant steps to ease the financial burden for school families.

People living across regional Victorian have the same stake in our democracy as people living in Melbourne.

It has to end. Power is an essential service. We need to put people before profits.

The Victorian Government is the Rocky Balboa of the toll fines Industry.

There’s a well established link between poverty and poor oral health. No child should be ashamed to smile or scared

VCOSS and NATSEM analysis reveals there is not a single pocket of Victoria that is poverty free

The healthcare sector could be a great ally in providing guidance and support to people battling to afford adequate energy.

We welcome a political tussle over which party will do the most to get Victorians the best possible power deal.

The Victorian Council of Social Service is hailing plans for a Royal Commission into Mental Health as a landmark step

Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has welcomed Victorian Labor’s pledge to build 1,000 new public housing units if re-elected.

Victoria needs an ambitious social housing building program to provide a roof to those most in need.

People with disability will help shape Victoria's care workforce of the future.

The Victorian Parliament has done the right thing by renters.

VCOSS & FSSI MEDIA RELEASE Victoria has a window of opportunity to put itself ahead of the game in building

A state owned energy retailer for Victoria? It might just help.

VCOSS blasts plan for more school expulsions in Victoria

All school-age children should be able to play sport however simply making PE compulsory isn’t the right response.

The real issue isn’t intergenerational welfare dependency, it’s intergenerational disadvantage.

This is a horror show with no single villain. Many players bear the blame for high prices.

All workers have a right to feel safe at work. But mandatory sentencing is not the answer.

The Victorian Parliament should support a Treaty with the Aboriginal community.

Victorian teachers, students, principals, schools and community workers are launching a campaign to make inclusive education a top-tier election issue.

The 2018 Victorian Budget presents a pathway to a better and fairer Victoria.