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The decision to make a universal Power Saving Bonus the headline Budget initiative on cost-of-living issues is an important recognition
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While some funding toward emergency resilience has been provided in the Budget, it doesn’t go far enough in the current
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The funding allocated in this Budget is not sufficient to fully cover the increasing financial pressures facing the community sector.
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The 2022-23 Budget includes some sensible initiatives to improve justice system responses, but misses the opportunity to adopt a justice
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VCOSS is pleased to see that gender responsive budgeting will be embedded in Victorian legislation to ensure that an equality
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The Budget delivers much to like in early childhood education, schools, training and skills.
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We know that employment figures don’t always tell the full story, so we continue to advocate for policy measures and
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The theme of the Victorian Government’s 2022-23 Budget is ‘Putting Patients First’, and it’s certainly a bonanza for the health
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There are countless initiatives in the State Budget that would form part of a wellbeing economy. It is time to
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The 2022-23 Budget could have gone further to ensure that all Victorians have safe, stable and affordable homes.
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The Budget includes $3.8 billion to begin implementation of the Mental Health Royal Commission recommendations.
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Communities impacted by the Black Summer bushfires will benefit from investment in essential services.
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The 2021-22 Budget invests $354 million to support victim survivors and address family violence.
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Some jobseekers will require targeted support to participate in the state’s economic recovery.
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"The pandemic has made bold interventions a necessity, and the government isn't missing its shot."
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Victoria doesn’t have to settle for the title of Australia’s most progressive state. We can be Australia’s fairest state too.
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The real issue isn’t intergenerational welfare dependency, it’s intergenerational disadvantage.
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VCOSS welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the House of Representatives Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport inquiry
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For many Victorians, rental homes will be homes for life – places where we grow up, raise a family, work,
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The 2017 Victorian Budget delivers on the Government’s laudable commitment to ending family violence. The Victorian Council of Social Service
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Victoria’s peak social advocacy body has warned not all Victorians are benefiting from the state’s social and economic growth, and
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Victoria has reached a sombre milestone, with a record 726,900 people now living in poverty. New figures released to mark
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