Many of the arguments used to justify the crackdown on disability pensions are false or misleading, argues this report. It shows it is not easy to get the Disability Support Pension (DSP), and that the doubling of the number of DSP recipients over the past 15 years is due to a range of factors

This project aims to investigate transport and travel for rural and regional young people, to examine successes and challenges in improving the provision of transport services to young people, and to focus on viable solutions to their transport needs.

In this submission to the Senate inquiry into student income support, ACOSS provides a series of recommendations for helping young people to take up education and training and, build both personal opportunities and the broader level of skills and knowledge within our community.

This report, written with National Shelter, shows that the federal government's rent assistance program is failing to prevent around 330,000 low income people and families being crushed by high rents in the private rental market. Analysing data on the almost one million age pensioners, people with disabilities, sole parents, unemployed people and students who receive...

Last month, the Government released a draft Charities Bill, 2003 to define 'charity' for taxation purposes and asked the Board of Taxation to consult over its wording. The draft Charities Bill contains unreasonable and unnecessary restrictions on the advocacy role of charities. While welcoming the broad direction of the Bill, the ACOSS submission recommends: removing...