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A monthly discussion forum to guide community organisations through the COVID-19 pandemic.

If we're not bold enough to do what's required now, will we ever be?

VCOSS welcomes the opportunity to provide initial feedback on the Essential Services Commission’s (ESC’s) proposed approach and process to determining

"If I'd been in a private high-rise block, there is no way known they could have got away with it."

“We’re all in this together” goes the spin. But we’re not. Differential disadvantage means low-income people suffer more, for longer.

Jinghua Qian turned freelance. A week later, COVID-19 shut down the country.

If authorities are forced to impose localised 'hard lockdowns' again, how should they do it better?

"Thousands of masked faces on the street in the middle of a pandemic, thousands of voices chanting, 'bla(c)k lives matter'."

A monthly discussion forum to guide community organisations through the COVID-19 pandemic.

It will be a long time before I, and many other disabled people, feel that we can live our lives

Every day after treatment, I would drop my father off and drive to my daughter’s house for a special window-visit.

A monthly discussion forum to guide community organisations through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Governments can build new housing much quicker than the private sector.

Now is the time to think big, to be bold and to take the smart steps required to deliver real

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What we’re learning in this crisis is that much of the work that keeps our society functioning is care work.

You’d probably expect the lockdown to lead to a spike in loneliness. And you’d be right, in part.

For many in our community a state of emergency is the daily reality. Emergency relief agencies are there to help.

Done wrong, smartphone tracing could be a disaster. So let's do it right.

For some Victorians, home is the least safe place they could be.

It will take more than dog memes to get Victorians through the long winter months at home.

Every household is different, and self-isolation rules will hit some harder than others.

COVID-19 can infect anybody, but people with disability are more likely to catch it and die.

As we rush to ban evictions and protect renters from financial ruin, some questions are emerging.

Without a plan, closing schools will have potentially disastrous social consequences.

Here's everything you need to know.

A guest post from Megan Weier at the Centre for Social Impact. When governments talk about ‘progress’, it’s almost always

No matter what, people who are struggling shouldn’t be left behind on energy upgrades.

Financial counsellors across Victoria say they’re stressed, overworked and fearful of making bad decisions on the job.

Ben Martin Hobbs explores why the in-home care system is failing the older people it’s meant to empower.