Australian Council of Social Service

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Australian Council of Social Service
Company typeNon-profit
Founded1956;68 years ago (1956)
Headquarters,
Australia
Area served
Australia
Key people
  • Hang Vo (President)
  • Violet Roumeliotis (Vice President)
  • Cassandra Goldie (CEO)
Website acoss.org.au

The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) is an Australian organisation that advocates for action to reduce poverty and inequality, and is the peak body for the community services sector in Australia. It was formed in 1956. [1]

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ACOSS is active in areas of social policy, including community sector policy, climate and energy, economics and tax, income support and employment, health, housing and homelessness, and poverty and inequality.

Cassandra Goldie became CEO of ACOSS in 10 July 2010. [2] She was previously the Director of the Sex Discrimination Unit at the Australian Human Rights Commission (HREOC).

The CEO of ACOSS is often interviewed by Australian media for comment and analysis on social matters and policies of the Australian Government.

Governance

ACOSS has a 9-person volunteer Board of Governors, elected according to the constitution adopted in August 2019.

Controversies

In 1991 Federal Opposition leader John Hewson accused ACOSS of seeking to acquire more money than for welfare and making bureaucracies bigger. bureaucracy than in helping those in povery.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10349952.1998.11876679

Presidents

Members

Source: [4]

State and Territory Councils of Social Service

National constituency organization members

National organization members

Associate Members

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References

  1. Philip Mendes Inside the Welfare Lobby: A History of the Australian Council of Social Service
  2. Australian Council of Social Service (July 2010). "ACOSS Appoints New Chief Executive Officer". Australian Council of Social Service. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  3. "Merle Mitchell AM – Former ACOSS President". Australian Council of Social Service. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021.
  4. "Members - ACOSS". Australian Council of Social Service. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015.