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VCOSS media releases and public statements. media@vcoss.org.au 0418 127 153
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VCOSS has welcomed a new plan to improve work, study and business opportunities for Victorians with a disability.
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VCOSS has welcomed the Victorian Government’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Plan - a comprehensive and multi-faceted response to a
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Victorians are about to get whacked by a series of price hikes in 2018, according to Victorian Council of Social
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Victoria's big power companies have flagged significant price hikes for 2018 and must increase relief by an equal measure, according
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VCOSS has joined a coalition of justice, human rights, social service and Aboriginal organisations to call on the Victorian Government
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VCOSS is outraged the Victorian Parliament has blocked the construction of new public housing planned for Melbourne’s east.
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You can view photos from the ACOSS National Conference, delivered in partnership with VCOSS, on our Facebook page.
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The Federal Government is abandoning good faith negotiations with Victoria over homelessness funding and risking the wellbeing of thousands of
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New rules for power companies in Victoria will help stop struggling energy users incurring big debts or being disconnected, the
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The Victorian Government has delivered a big win for renters, putting fairness back at the centre of the state’s tenancy
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In the new report ‘Stuck in traffic? Road congestion in Sydney and Melbourne‘ the Grattan Institute has suggested the Victorian
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True love is elusive. It’s difficult to define, hard to find and even harder to keep. So when two people
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VCOSS says 'yes' to marriage equality. All relationships should be recognised and celebrated equally, regardless of how we identify or
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The Thwaites-Mulder review into Victoria’s power markets provides an action blueprint for the Victorian Government to ease skyrocketing prices, according
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Australian politicians must stop and listen to the voices of real people suffering under horror power price rises, Victoria’s peak
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Victorian wages are failing to keep pace with skyrocketing rents, costing tenants thousands of dollars each year, a VCOSS study
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The Victorian Government is rushing through dangerously regressive legislation that will make the state’s youth justice system cruel and less
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The Victorian Council of Social Service has welcomed a plan to give new rights to people struggling to pay their
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The 2017 Victorian Budget delivers on the Government’s laudable commitment to ending family violence. The Victorian Council of Social Service
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Victorians will be rightly horrified by the revelations in The Same Four Walls, a new investigation into cruel and ineffective
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Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has given qualified support to a State Government plan to make it easier for renters
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The Victorian Council of Social Service has applauded the establishment of a new $1 billion Victorian Social Housing Growth Fund.
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Changes to the youth justice system announced today are a retrograde step that will not improve community safety, the Victorian
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VCOSS is warning Victorians to be alert to a series of price hikes due to take effect in 2017. The cost
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Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has warned not all Victorians are benefiting from the state’s social and economic growth, and
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