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Opposition seeks to disallow Working with Vulnerable People fee

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Come September, volunteers will have to pay $11 for a Working With Vulnerable People card, but could the cost deter volunteering?

ACT politics bulletin: Criminal responsibility raised to 14

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Minimum age of criminal responsibility raised to 14 . ACT Government reduces health levy to $100. And more.

ACT politics bulletin: Friday 13 June

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ACT Budget: $10 million funding boost for community services; $100 million for new aquatic centre and convention precinct.

ACT politics bulletin: Thursday 8 May

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Inquiry into Aboriginal deaths in custody. More funding for the community sector. Protecting endangered lizards.

ACT rental market out of reach for low-income earners: Anglicare

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Anglicare Australia released its 2025 Rental Affordability Snapshot, showing that many cannot afford to rent, including in Canberra.

ACT politics bulletin: Thursday 10 April

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Labor announces $1.55 million to save Canberra's premier hockey pitch. Making housing a human right. Youth Week.

The federal budget according to ACT politicians

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Does the federal budget 'deliver for Canberra'? The answer depends, it seems, on whether one is a Labor politician or not.

ACT election: Results and reactions so far

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ACT Labor has claimed its seventh consecutive term in government, beginning an unbroken stretch of 27 years in power.

Anglicare: Rental affordability ‘the worst it has ever been’

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Anglicare’s 2024 Rental Affordability Snapshot shows that welfare recipients and minimum wage earners cannot afford to rent in Canberra.

ACT politics bulletin: Friday 4 October

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Fifteen days to the election. More election promises: public housing from Labor, and Tuggeranong funding from the Liberals.

ACT politics bulletin: Thursday 12 September

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More election commitments from the ACT Greens and ACT Labor: this time, funding the community sector and energy rebates.

‘The shrinking of our middle class’: ACTCOSS’s cost-of-living report

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ACTCOSS’s annual cost-of-living report, published this morning, warns that Canberra faces disaster, as more households fall into poverty.

Failing housing system: ACTCOSS & ACT Shelter call for action

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ACTCOSS and ACT Shelter called for political parties and candidates to commit to a more ambitious social housing policy.

Nearly 900 homeless children in the ACT

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Homelessness Australia’s 2024 Child Homelessness Snapshot reveals that 868 children presented to ACT homelessness services in 2022–23.

ACT community organisations at risk: Campaign for urgent funding

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The community sector's election campaign urges the government to increase funding to match population growth amid the cost-of-living crisis.

ACTCOSS: Cost-of-living crisis worsens

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Canberra workers cannot buy food or pay power bills; homelessness is increasing; and cash-starved community services might go belly up.
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