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The Community Sector mourns the passing of Christine Halsey on 18^th December 2022.

Chris is known by many as a champion of social justice and advocate for community inclusion, particularly for women, children and young people. We celebrate her many contributions to social policy and to sound collaborative practice in this state and beyond.

The CEO and Chair report in SACOSS' 2021-22 Annual Report provides a great lead in to our wrap up of another big year, which included our pre-election Cover the Basics campaign. In honour of this being our 75th annual report, we also took some time to reflect on what the past decades have meant, as well as what remains to be done.

NEWS UPDATE: SACOSS is very disturbed by the fact that the United Nations’ Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has had to cut short its visit to Australia because it was blocked while carrying out its mandate under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT), that Australia has signed up to. 

BLOG: Last weekend's Sunday Mail reported that last financial year South Australians lost more than $831m on pokies. It's an extraordinary amount of effectively wasted money - which might be ok if we could be confident that everyone who was gambling was doing so without compulsion and within limits that meant they had plenty left over to live a good life.  But gamblers and gambling help services will readily tell you this is not the case for far too many people. People who should be, are not being protected from gambling harm and they, their families, and we as a community,...