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NTCOSS Youth Voice’s Stephanie Burgess tells ABC’s Jess Ong about Love Letters to Mparntwe/Alice Springs
NTCOSS’s Youth Voice Project Officer Stephanie Burgess spoke to ABC Radio’s Jess Ong on Valentine’s Day about our Love Letters to Mparntwe/Alice Springs project. She did a great job celebrating where she lives. You can find our pages on Facebook and Instagram...
NTCOSS Pre-Budget Submission 2024 – 2025
Foreword The Northern Territory Council of Social Service’ (NTCOSS) vision is for a fair, inclusive, and sustainable Northern Territory (NT) where all individuals and communities can participate in and benefit from all aspects of social, cultural, and economic life....
Domestic and family violence in the Territory is a crisis and needs urgent and significant response
Over the past seven months, the NT Coroner has explored the lives and deaths of four Aboriginal Territorian women who were killed by their partners. Kumanjayi Haywood Kumanjayi Ragurrk Miss Yunupingu R. Rubuntja We pay our deepest condolences to their loved ones. We...
Money needed to save lives – NTCOSS’s Sophie Hantz on changes to DFSV laws
https://ntcoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/231129-DFSV.pdf Stakeholders welcome DV law changes but say more funds required. Advocates have welcomed reforms to modernise and strengthen the Territory's domestic violence laws, but say it will be "meaningless"...
NTCOSS’s Greg Roberts talks to CAAMA Radio about a 13th interest rate rise in 18 months and cost of living pain.
https://vimeo.com/888570277?share=copy The Reserve Bank raised interest rates for a 13th time in 18 months in November, imposing more financial pain on many Territorians in the midst of a cost of living crisis. ACOSS recommended the Commonwealth step in and tackle...
We have released our latest annual report
We have produced our annual report for the year 2022-23. NTCOSS Annual Reports provide a snapshot of the organisation. Check out the highlights. Click here
NTCOSS Submission to the National Housing and Homelessness Plan Issues Paper
https://ntcoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/NTCOSS-Submission-to-the-National-Housing-and-Homelessness-Plan-Issues-Paper_Oct-2023.pdf
NTCOSS urges NT and Commonwealth provide protections for Territorians amid cost of living crisis
Territorians need more support and better protections to afford the basic costs of living, including access to affordable housing, transport and electricity amid a difficult cost environment.In the last year inflation reached the highest level in more than two...
Mparntwe ( Alice Springs) Transport Disadvantage Research Project
The Alice Spring Transport Working Group is pleased to release the final report for the Mparntwe(Alice Springs) Transport Disadvantage Research Project. Transport disadvantage impacts people’s ability to access work, health, affordable food, education, and other...
Re: Inquiry into the worsening rental crisis in Australia
https://ntcoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NTCOSS-rental-inquiry-submission.29.08.23.pdf