WACOSS

Last night, WACOSS President Mark Glasson won the Community Award at the Western Australian of the Year Awards.

In true Mark style, he used the opportunity to speak about children, families, and people experiencing poverty, and to reinforce the importance of eliminating poverty in Western Australia.

Join us in congratulating Mark for this extremely well-deserved acknowledgment of his hard work and dedication to make WA a great place for all Western Australians to live.

ACOSS: Reforms to the employment services system is a chance to fix a broken system

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We are All In for reconciliation.

WACOSS leadership and board members showed their support for National Reconciliation Week today.

Reconciliation will not happen by itself and it will not happen without all of us.

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We are All In for National Reconciliation Week 2026.

The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2026 is All In, a call for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every single day.

All In makes clear that reconciliation is not a spectator sport and that all of us must step away from the sidelines and take action to make change.

The theme also reminds us that reconciliation and advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights isn’t a passive activity, and it is not solely the responsibility of First Nations people, who have carried the weight of championing, explaining and acting for far too long.

Reconciliation will not happen by itself, and it will not happen without all of us.

Reconciliation WA

Tomorrow, on Tuesday 26 May 2026, we are asking everyone in the state to unite and share an Acknowledgement of Country on their social pages.

An Acknowledgement of Country is an opportunity to show respect for Traditional Owners and the continuing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Country.

Take a video of yourself on Boodja (Country) meaningful to you. Otherwise, you can share one of our downloadable tiles.

Download tiles here:
https://www.recwa.org.au/national-reconciliation-week/digital-kit/

Plenty of media coverage for Shelter WA's Short-term Rental Accommodation Report this week. Take a read of the report here - https://www.shelterwa.org.au/our-work/short-term-rental-accommodation-report-death-by-10000-cuts/

Check out the Australian Council of Social Service's snapshot of last week's Federal Budget 👇

Check out the News Hub on the WACOSS website, where we share regular important updates in the community services sector 👉 wacoss.org.au/news-hub/

The $2 million food relief grant pool administered by WACOSS is now open.

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We've analysed last week's State Budget papers and prepared a series of fact sheets on what it all means for the community services sector, and the people we represent and advocate for.

There's loads of detail in them for the sector, download them on the WACOSS website.