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TasCOSS acknowledges the legitimate objective of recognising the additional harm caused when offending is deliberately published or glorified online and understands the policy intent of the proposed amendment. For children and young people, the evidence consistently supports rehabilitation, diversion and addressing the underlying causes of offending ahead of increasingly punitive…

TasCOSS supports measures that improve the safety of workers, customers and the broader community from serious violence in workplaces. However, any Workplace Protection Order (WPO) scheme must be carefully designed to avoid unintended consequences that further criminalise children and young people or undermine rehabilitation and prevention. TasCOSS recommends that the…

TasCOSS appreciates the City of Hobart's leadership in responding to the interaction between planning policy and housing affordability. We support the proposed amendment as a proportionate measure that prioritises the use of residential zoning for housing, while recognising the need for locally tailored responses to housing market pressures.

Tasmania’s renters deserve a system that provides genuine security of tenure, protection from exploitative conditions and rent practices, stronger protections for people impacted by family and sexual violence, and housing that meets basic standards of safety and liveability. The reforms recommended in this submission would deliver those outcomes and bring…

TasCOSS, Youth Network of Tasmania, CREATE Foundation and the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare Tas/Vic acknowledges the effort to develop a Model of Care (MoC) that is child-centred, rights-based, therapeutic and culturally safe. However, the MoC in its current form describes only a care intent. The Tasmanian…