The TasCOSS offices, located at Level 3/86 Murray Street, Hobart, 7000 will close to the public for the holidays at 3pm, Wednesday 24 December 2025 and reopen at 9am, Monday 12 January 2026.

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) is still reviewing the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 to address gender-based undervaluation, with a report to the Expert Panel released this week.

TasCOSS, in collaboration with Tenants’ Union of Tasmania, has released new rental reform indicators on the Tasmania’s State of Housing Dashboard, which underscores the uphill plight facing Tasmanian renters who, despite growing in numbers, continue to be let down by inadequate government protections and regulations.

2025 has been a year marked by change and uncertainty — a snap state election, a federal election, two state budgets and two Treasurers later, here we are.

On Thursday 6 November 2025, Treasurer, the Hon Eric Abetz MP, handed down the interim Budget. Read TasCOSS’s and the Tasmanian Coalition of Community Service Peaks’ interim Budget responses.

This interim Budget was at its core simply a vehicle for the Government to bide time — a repeat of what we saw in May — but this time with a thinly veiled warning of the need to find savings and efficiencies.