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Tasmania’s community services are reeling from the Tasmanian Labor and Liberal election promises of cuts to industry indexation, putting the delivery of essential services to Tasmanians in need at risk.

A network of 24 community service organisations and advocates for pokies reform has united to seek commitments from parties and candidates to make poker machines safer for all consumers by fully implementing the universal, pre-commitment card and the introduction of safer machine design features, such as $1 bet limits and slower spin speeds. 

In the face of surging community demand, TasCOSS have joined with Colony 47 to call on all political aspirants to commit to increasing investment in the state’s community services industry to ensure Tasmanians can get the support they need, when they need it.

All the altruism in the world cannot defy the basic laws of commerce, writes Adrienne Picone.

The Tasmanian Community Services Industry Peaks Network has today launched a Joint Statement of 2024 Tasmanian State Election Priorities, which calls on all political aspirants to place the wellbeing of Tasmanians first by ensuring community services are adequately resourced to meet surging demand.

The incoming Tasmanian Government has a responsibility to build a strong community services industry that will serve the next generations of Tasmanians to keep them safe and well. This is all the more important in times of great uncertainty and challenge, as we are in now.

A coalition of community service organisations and justice advocates have united to seek commitments from parties and candidates that respond to the urgent and ongoing safety concerns identified by the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings.

TasCOSS’s 2024 Tasmanian State Election Priorities proposes a suite of measures that would provide Tasmanians with much-needed, targeted cost of living relief, and ensure a well-resourced community services industry that can meet increasing levels of need and complexity in the community.