Publications
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Submission to the Land Lease Community Charging Proposal
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre made a submission to the Department of Customer Service (DCS) in response to their supplementary consultation on charging options for residents in land lease communities. PIAC strongly supports reform of charging options for embedded network residents of land lease communities. Greater consistency and fairness in charging methods is needed. PIAC…
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Letter to the Committee on Community Services: We need adequate investment to address the social housing shortage, not more insecure housing options
The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS) at PIAC wrote to the inquiry into ‘Options to improve access to existing and alternate accommodation to address the social housing shortage’. ‘Meanwhile use’, the temporary use of vacant land or dwellings for temporary accommodation until they are required for their end purpose, is the main option examined by…
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Fact sheet: 2021 COVID-19 Lockdown Rules in Inner Sydney (face masks)
HPLS teamed up with Kirketon Road Centre and Inner City Legal Centre to produce factsheets about the COVID Public Health Orders. The factsheets are specifically aimed at clients experiencing homelessness and will be distributed at Outreach clinics.
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Fact sheet: 2021 COVID-19 Lockdown Rules in Inner Sydney (stay at home order)
HPLS teamed up with Kirketon Road Centre and Inner City Legal Centre to produce factsheets about the COVID Public Health Orders. The factsheets are specifically aimed at clients experiencing homelessness and will be distributed at Outreach clinics.
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Market Ancillary Service Specification amendment for DER
PIAC responded to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) consultation on amendments to the Market Ancillary Service Sprecification (MASS) for Distributed Energy Resources (DER). AEMO undertook this consultation to determine whether it would be appropriate to amend the MASS to accommodate the provision of market ancillary services (FCAS) by DER using the learnings from a…
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Leader to Laggard: The case for modernising the NSW Anti‐Discrimination Act
The Anti‐Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) (‘the ADA’) was ground‐breaking legislation when it was originally introduced. Coming just two years after the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), the ADA prohibited racial discrimination as well as becoming the first State or Territory to cover sex and marital status. However, in the decades since, the ADA has fallen…
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Submission to DISER Gas-Fired Recovery: Infrastructure and Investment
PIAC responded to the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources’ consultation on the Gas Fired Recovery Plan. We advised we do not support the measures proposed in the Gas Fired Recovery Plan, as they will not deliver the Plan’s intended benefits, while endangering urgent efforts to address climate change and presenting an unacceptable cost…
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Submission to the Disability Support Pension Inquiry
PIAC made a submission to the inquiry into the purpose, intent and adequacy of the Disability Support Pension (DSP). Our submission, drawing from the experiences of the Homeless Persons Legal Service clients and StreetCare members, focused on issues for people experiencing homelessness receiving or trying to access the DSP. In PIAC’s view, the DSP should…