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TasCOSS's 2024 Tasmanian State Election Priorities focusses on policy solutions and investments that address the immediate cost of living pressures Tasmanians are grappling with and ensure a well-resourced community services industry that can meet increasing levels of need and complexity in the community. These asks, if adopted, will also build…

Industry Sustainability: A Proposal for a Strong Community Services Industry to Keep Tasmanians Safe and Well responds to the multiple challenges affecting Tasmanians and the industry that supports them. The COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters, combined with the widescale reform required to safeguard and uphold the rights of adults and…

Supporting Tasmanians in a Worsening Cost of Living Crisis makes a number of recommendations to provide immediate and longer-term cost of living relief and better support Tasmanians through housing, energy, food, health, transport, and digital technology solutions. We also recommend ongoing funding for TasCOSS’s flagship lived experience initiative, the Community…

Based on feedback from TasCOSS Members and conversations with Tasmanian community members, leaders in the community services industry, and on evidence of what works to reduce poverty and increase wellbeing, TasCOSS’s 2025 Tasmanian Election Priorities statement focusses on industry sustainability and proposes a number of evidence-informed recommendations that better target government spending to improve the wellbeing of Tasmanians.