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.

Tasmanians and our economy continue to miss out on the social and economic benefits of using digital technologies effectively, because they can’t access, can’t afford or don’t have the necessary skills to navigate the online world.

The number of Australians living in poverty has swelled to one-in-seven people, representing 81,500 Tasmanians, according to a new ACOSS and UNSW Poverty & Inequality in Australia report released to mark Anti-Poverty Week.

As Tasmania marks two years since the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse handed down its final report, TasCOSS are urging the Tasmanian Government to stay the course and deliver on key reforms.

TasCOSS, in collaboration with Disability Voices Tasmania, has released new disability and housing indicators on the Tasmania’s State of Housing Dashboard, which highlight the fact that the housing needs of Tasmanians with disability are not being met.

Two years on from the Commission of Inquiry the path to keeping children safe but not without hurdles, writes Adrienne Picone.

As we mark National Child Protection Week, TasCOSS is calling on the Tasmanian Government to urgently refocus and resource its approach to implementing the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings.