Media Release - COAG Must Prioritise Social Inclusion Across Its Agenda
Catholic Social Services Australia today released an Open Letter to Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Participants.
Speaking ahead of tomorrow's COAG meeting, Catholic Social Services Australia Executive Director, Mr Frank Quinlan, said the Open Letter asks COAG members to integrate social inclusion across all policy areas and Working Groups.
Catholic Social Services Australia is also asking COAG members to:
- Extend the scope of the Business Regulation and Competition Working Group to incorporate the not-for-profit sector, which is burdened by many regulatory issues similar to those affecting the private sector,
- Support extensive community consultation on issues being addressed by COAG, and
- Revise the workplan of the COAG Working Groups to better address its concerns.
The text of the Open Letter is available here. Annexes are available on the Catholic Social Services Australia website at the links below.
Catholic Social Services Australia provides services to over a million Australians each year through its 64 member agencies in remote, regional and metropolitan Australia.
25 March 2008
CONTACT: Frank Quinlan 0409 655 460
Open Letter to COAG Participants, 20 March 2008
Annex A: Catholic Social Services Australia, Open Letter to COAG Participants, 19 December 2007
Annex D: Summary of the Leading Nationally, Responding Locally paper: "A Snapshot"
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