Tasmania’s Coalition of Community Service Peaks came together in an unprecedented show of unity today, launching a coordinated campaign urging the Government to deliver the increased funding and long-term investment needed to protect the wellbeing of all Tasmanians.

Ahead of International Women’s Day (8 March), TasCOSS is officially opening expressions of interest for this year’s Changemakers Community Leaders Program.

The Government must work alongside the local government sector to strengthen its regulatory response to short-stay accommodation in Tasmania, or risk more Tasmanians being excluded from the already stretched private rental market, new data shows. TasCOSS, in collaboration with the Local Government of Tasmania (LGAT), has released new short-stay accommodation indicators on the Tasmania’s State of Housing Dashboard, which quantify the rapid growth of the under-regulated short-stay market over the past decade.

TasCOSS CEO, Adrienne Picone, has informed the TasCOSS Board that she will not be renewing her contract when it concludes in June 2026. Adrienne has led TasCOSS for close to six years with commitment and integrity, and we thank her for her significant contribution to the organisation and to the broader community services industry in Tasmania.

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.

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.