Latest Resources & Submissions

TasCOSS has made a submission on the Workplace Protection Orders Bill 2026, calling for stronger safeguards to prevent the unnecessary criminalisation of children and young people. Our submission recommends excluding children under 14 from the scheme, protecting access to essential services and strengthening diversionary and therapeutic supports.

TasCOSS has written to Tasmanian parliamentarians urging their support for the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026. Conversion practices are harmful, discriminatory and can have profound and lasting impacts on the health and wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ Tasmanians. TasCOSS supports comprehensive legislation that protects people from harm, upholds fundamental human rights and…

The Family Violence Reforms Bill 2026 proposes important reforms to better recognise coercive control and strengthen protections for victim-survivors living in rental properties. TasCOSS also supports COTA Tasmania’s call to broaden the definition of family violence to recognise abuse occurring across a wider range of family and caring relationships. The…

COTA Tasmania and TasCOSS have called for GST distribution reforms to protect Tasmania’s capacity to fund essential services. Our joint submission highlights Tasmania’s older and more dispersed population, socioeconomic disadvantage and limited revenue-raising capacity, and argues these structural differences must continue to be recognised. We support a system that delivers…

TasCOSS has raised concerns about proposed reductions to opening hours at five regional Service Tasmania centres. Our submission argues low transaction numbers do not necessarily mean low community need, particularly where regional communities already have limited access to face-to-face services. We are calling for a proper assessment of community need…