Justice, Opportunity and Shared Wealth for all South Australians
Download Policy Brief: Rental Affordability (April 2023)
This is an over-view of issues of rental affordability and SACOSS policy proposals. It is updated version of an earlier briefing note and contains data from the latest ABS survey of income and housing (2019-20), and December 2022 cost of living data.
Download Briefing Note: A Better Public Housing Future
This Policy Briefing is a quick summary of the size of the public housing estate in South Australia (2022 data) and an analysis of the housing investment announced in the governments A Better Housing Future document.
This Policy Briefing Note is a quick summary of the SACOSS submission to the state government Discussion Paper proposing amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act - the major state legislation governing private rentals. SACOSS welcomes some proposals, but calls for a focus on rental affordability, including measures to make energy and water cheaper for renters, and a cap on rent increases.
This Policy Briefing Note summarises the concerns outlined in SACOSS major State of Concessions report, and provides new and specific examples of the unfairness of the current concessions system.
Download Policy Briefing Note: Concessions Reform 2023
This Fact Sheet extracts and summarises the South Australian local government area data from the 2021 Australian Digital Inclusion Index. Regional SA lags behind the Adelaide metropolitan area in digital inclusion, but it also lags behind the Australian average non-metro score.
Download the SACOSS Fact Sheet: Digital Inclusion in South Australia - Regional Data
This Briefing Note lists South Australian specific health and community services initiatives in the 2021-22 Federal Budget. It does not summarise all Commonwealth spending in SA, but is designed to complement analysis from ACOSS on the budget as a whole, and just highlights SA-specific initiatives which may otherwise have slipped under the radar.
Download Budget SA Policy Brief
An analysis of the June 2020 ABS Labour Force data for SA which shows an underlying unemployment rate of 10.3% (not the headline 8.8%) and despite improving job numbers from May to June, over 200,000 South Australians still looking for work or more work.
This is a short briefing note highlighting the problems a lack of digital inclusion poses both for those who are digitally excluded, but also for government health policy.
Download Briefing Note: COVID-19 and Digital Inclusion in South Australia
An analysis of the May 2020 ABS Labour Force data for SA which shows an underlying unemployment rate of 11.6% (not the headline 7.9%) and over 200,000 South Australians looking for work or more work.
An analysis of the April 2020 ABS Labour Force data for SA which shows an underlying unemployment rate of 10.8% (not the headline 7.2%) and nearly a quarter of a million South Australians looking for work or more work.
Download: Briefing Note - COVID-19 and SA Jobs
