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			<title>Council of Social Service of NSW (NCOSS)</title>
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			<title>Meeting with Transport Minister On Wednesday February 8</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=6222&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>NCOSS met with the Minister for Transport, Gladys Berejiklian, to discuss the transport priorities raised in the NCOSS Pre-Budget Submission...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:49:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title> Ministerial Taskforce on Aboriginal Affairs - Public community meetings in NSW</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=6137&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>The Ministerial Taskforce on Aboriginal Affairs is seeking your views on the development of a new Aboriginal affairs strategy for...</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:21:40 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Speak up for regional NSW!</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5846&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>20-22 March 2012
NCOSS consultations in Deniliquin, Wagga Wagga and Albury

NCOSS visits different rural and regional locations across NSW each year...</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>The Charter for the NSW Community Sector</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5869&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>The Forum of Non Government Agencies (FONGA) endorsed the final Charter for the NSW Community Sector at its meeting on...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Season's Greeting from NCOSS 2011</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=6033&amp;Itemid=100</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>NCOSS Workforce Development Project: Equal Pay Case: Regional Consultation</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=6025&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>8/12/11


Fair Work Australia has found that community sector workers are underpaid on the basis of gender and is expected to...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:21:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>ACOSS National Conference 2012</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=6024&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>29-30 March 2012
	Australian Technology Park, Sydney


The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) are holding their annual Congress in Sydney next...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:38:20 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Premier addresses 74th NCOSS AGM</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=6004&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>The NSW Premier, Barry O&amp;rsquo;Farrell, addressed the 74th NCOSS AGM, held on 22 November. In his speech he highlighted his...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>85% women but are they equally represented at the top? New Gender Audit</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5987&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>Media Release 18 November 2011
We know that the community sector employs around 85% women, yet there is little knowledge about...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:34:29 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Australians for Affordable Housing Launch</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5959&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>Housing costs make up the biggest share of household budgets across Australia accounting
for 18 per cent of household spending on...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:38:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Equal Pay and SACS – Regional Information and Education Forums</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5911&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>The Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC) has provided funding to National Disability Services (NDS), the Australian Services...</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:31:20 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>NCOSS Sector Development Good Governance Seminar – Surry Hills</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5895&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>5 December 2011 


On 1 July 2010 the new NSW Associations Incorporation Act 2009 came into force. Is your organisation...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Positive pathway to asylum seeker policy</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5894&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>A community delegation will converge on Canberra today to support the Federal Government's positive pathway towards community-based alternatives to immigration...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:24:44 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>New report on housing stress</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5868&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>New research commissioned by Australians for Affordable Housing reveals that almost 300,000 NSW households are in housing stress. After paying...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:43:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>It’s time to raise Newstart to tackle growing inequality in Australia: ACOSS Poverty Report</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5853&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) is calling on the 
Commonwealth Government to commit to increase income support allowances...</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:37:02 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>New disability forum to help shape service delivery and policy</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5814&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>The NSW Minister for Disability Services Andrew Constance officially launched the NSW Disability Network Forum on 20 September. NCOSS is...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:53:02 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Government funding gives people with disability international representation</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5813&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>People with disability and their representatives will share in $300,000 in Australian Government funding over three years to attend key...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:41:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>NCOSS welcomes new affordable housing</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5785&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>NCOSS is pleased to hear that NSW has been allocated 4,700 extra houses under round four of the National Rental...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:58:48 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Anti-Tobacco Community Grants Program - CALD</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5779&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>Anti-Tobacco Community Grants for Priority CALD Communities in NSW (Arabic Chinese and Vietnamese and small and emerging communities)

NSW Multicultural Health...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:14:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Bankstown Forum on Income Management 6 October 2011</title>
			<link>http://www.ncoss.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=5778&amp;Itemid=100</link>
			<description>You are invited to attend a public forum: Not In Bankstown, Not Anywhere! why we need a Moratorium on Government&amp;rsquo;s...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:05:07 +0100</pubDate>
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