The SACOSS Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics' inquiry into regional inequality focuses on regional poverty, the digital divide and the importance of local community organisations. The submissions makes 7 recommendations, including raising the rate of Newstart, subsiding NBN costs for households on income support, and ensuring government health and community service procurement operations properly recognise the social capital of local non-government organisations.
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Submissions
Senate Inquiry into Regional Inequality
18 November 2019
Submission to the Department for Energy and Mining on the Retailer Energy Efficiency Scheme Review: Directions Paper
1 November 2019
Submission to the Department for Energy and Mining on the Retailer Energy Efficiency Scheme Review: Directions Paper
Submission to ESCOSA on the Small-Scale Networks Inquiry: Framework and Approach Paper
5 October 2019
Submission to ESCOSA on the Small-Scale Networks Inquiry: Framework and Approach Paper
Download: Submission to ESCOSA on the Small-Scale Networks Inquiry: Framework and Approach Paper
Draft Land Tax (Miscellaneous) Amendments Bill 2019
1 October 2019
The SACOSS submission supports the proposed changes to land tax aggregation to minimise tax avoidance and make the system fairer, but we do not support the extent of the tax cuts which are also part of the Bill. SACOSS is proposing different tax scales and to use the extra revenue to invest in public and community housing to help reverse the decline in these much needed resources.
Submission to the Australian Energy Market Commission on Regulating Conditional Discounting Rule Change Request
19 September 2019
Submission to the Australian Energy Market Commission on Regulating Conditional Discounting Rule Change Request
Senate Inquiry on Adequacy of Newstart and other matters
17 September 2019
Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs Inquiry into the Adequacy of Newstart and other matters. The SACOSS submission is short and focuses on raising the rate of Newstart. It basically supports the ACOSS submission, highlights the SA Legislative Council Committee on Poverty which recommended that Newstart be increased, and notes the last SACOSS Cost of Living Report which shows that Newstart has not kept pace with cost of living for the last 3 years.
Housing and Homelessness Strategy for South Australia
2 September 2019
Submission to the state government housing and homeless strategy - strategic intent statement. The SACOSS submission highlights the decline in the stock of social housing and this is fundamental to any strategy to address homelessness and housing affordability, and notes the absence of a commitment in the strategy to increase the stock of social housing.
Download: SACOSS submission to SA Housing and Homelessness Strategy
Submission on ESCOSA's Consumer Experts Panel Background Briefing: Review of the Water Retail Code - Major Retailers
30 August 2019
Submission on ESCOSA's Consumer Experts Panel Background Briefing: Review of the Water Retail Code - Major Retailers
Joint submission to the AEMC on the Wholesale demand response mechanism draft determination
5 August 2019
Joint submission to the AEMC on the Wholesale demand response mechanism draft determination
Download: Joint submission to the AEMC on the Wholesale demand response mechanism draft determination
Submission to the AEMC on AEMO's Rule Change Request to Reduce Customers' Switching Times
1 August 2019
Submission to the AEMC on AEMO's Rule Change Request to Reduce Customers' Switching Times
Download: Submission to the AEMC on AEMO's Rule Change Request to Reduce Customers' Switching Times