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1. SA is out of step on raising the age of criminal responsibility

   ... the evidence provided by medical and mental health experts about the life-long harms caused by locking up children. We’re out of step on ... least 14 years in this state. The forum participants heard about developments with the national raise the age campaign from Change the ...

   Article - eva@sacoss.org.au - 12 Nov 2021 - 3:29pm

2. SACOSS Launches 'Pro-Taxes' Campaign

   ... revenue is quite clear – South Australians are now paying about $90 a year less in state tax per capita than we were 5 years ago” ... state election campaign, it really is time to stop talking about tax cuts, and start talking about the services and infrastructure we need ...

   Article - Marnie - 30 Aug 2022 - 3:01pm

3. Taxes and the SA Election

   ... average, and on a per capita basis South Australians pay about $450 a year less in state taxes than the national average. In this ... of economic growth; while too often, “waste” is talked about without identifying specific changes. If politicians promote ...

   Article - Greg - 5 Mar 2014 - 9:23am

4. 11th Annual Post-budget Breakfast with the Treasurer

   ... directly from our state Treasurer, the Hon Rob Lucas MLC, about his government’s budget, followed by a panel of sector experts ... organisation, or book extra tickets - click here About the Breakfast  In addition to hearing from the Treasurer, who will ...

   Event - angela - 30 Aug 2022 - 2:58pm

5. Not everyone can afford to be online

   ... per cent of their income on telecommunications that would be about $30 a month. The basic NBN wholesale package is about $45 a month, which means that NBN’s wholesale charge to retailers is ...

   Article - Tania2 - 29 Jan 2019 - 11:51am

6. Workers are Paying to Work

   ... casual workers checking rosters online or being notified about work by phone, photographers and care workers navigating to different ... is a surprise in our digital age, but the important thing about this survey was that all the respondents were “waged poor”. That is, ...

   Article - Greg - 1 Dec 2021 - 1:13am

7. Another Royal Commission - but into what?

   ... own. We say the experts don’t know what they’re talking about. We call for orphanages and institutions to be rebuilt. We argue that we ... to take action, any action, to show they are doing something about this problem. Yet we seldom seek to address a key underlying ...

   Article - Greg - 29 Jul 2014 - 11:17am

8. Petrol price volatility hits the poor hardest

   ... on petrol than those in Adelaide. Recent public concern about “historically high” petrol prices is understandable. But digging ... percentage of household income. Here, the issue is not just about prices, but also fundamentally about income. For households reliant ...

   Article - Tania2 - 22 Nov 2018 - 12:48pm

9. Thinking beyond the Budget ‘announceables’

   ... Budget, I wonder if we could think more deeply about the broader context. Inevitably, the Budget debate (like all Budget ... all that we actually fail to have the debate we need to have about where to spend our tax dollars and the level of taxes and services that ...

   Article - tania - 30 Aug 2022 - 3:01pm - 0 comments

10. SACOSS policy prescriptions for SA election 2022

    ... interests will be looked after. What we are talking about isn’t fancy – it’s fundamental. It’s about covering the very basics. Whoever forms government post-March 19 needs to ...

    Article - trevor@sacoss.org.au - 30 Aug 2022 - 2:58pm