MEDIA RELEASE Friday 9 December 2022 Research shows struggling Western Australians skipping meals to pay utility bills The Understanding Utility Hardship report, released today, has shown reducing spending on food…
WACOSS has called on the WA Government to use the record $6 billion surplus announced in yesterday’s annual report to invest in social infrastructure and address the cost of living…
WACOSS has cautiously welcomed the increase to the state indexation rate to 3.53%, back dated to 1 July 2022, but says it doesn’t go far enough. WACOSS and its members…
The Western Australian Council of Social Service has welcomed the opening of Boorloo Bidee Mia, a homelessness service for people sleeping rough in the Perth Metropolitan area. WACOSS CEO, Louise…
WACOSS has welcomed a motion that today passed the WA Labor conference calling for justice reform to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, in line with international standards….
One of the key takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the focus for Anti-Poverty Week 2021, is that poverty can strike families at any time and, when it does, it…