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Your defence dollar : the 2005-06 defence budget / Mark Thomson.

Michael Raper papers, 1993-2006. The collection mainly concerns Raper’s work as Director of the Welfare Rights Centre, and as President of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS). It comprises research papers, conference papers, speeches, notes, reports, submissions, correspondence, minutes of meetings, newscuttings, media releases, and newsletters. 

BOX 1
Files concerning ACOSS including ACOSS Board meeting papers, Feb. 2004- Sept. 2005; ACOSS Congress papers, Oct. 2004, Nov. 2005

BOX 2
Files concerning ACOSS including ACOSS Board papers, 2000-2001; ACOSS Board information kit, 1998; Senator Meg Lees meeting with ACOSS delegation, 2000; ACOSS Executive meeting, April, May 2001; ACOSS annual general meeting, Nov. 2000; Federal election, 2001; ACOSS strategic plan, 2002-2005

BOX 3
ACOSS Board meeting papers, Feb. 1999-Aug. 2001

BOX 4
Files concerning ACOSS including Executive and Board meeting minutes, June 1996-Aug. 1999; ACOSS Congress papers, 1998; ACOSS Annual General Meeting papers, 1998

BOX 5
ACOSS Congress papers, Nov. 1997, Congress and Annual General Meeting, Nov. 1999
ACOSS delegation meeting with Prime Minister Howard, 17 Apr. 1997, 13 Nov. 1997, 3 Mar. 1999
ACOSS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Working Party, 1996-1999
ACOSS strategic plan, 1999
ACOSS Board meeting, Nov. 1999, Mar. 2000, Executive and Board meeting, Feb. 2001
ACOSS elections, 1999
ACOSS Federal Budget Priorities Statement: Indigenous Rights and Reconciliation, 2001

BOX 6
Files concerning ACOSS submissions, reports and papers including:
ACOSS: Community Sector Support Scheme (CSSS) review, 1993-1996
Tax reform and the impact on the community services sector, 1999
ACOSS capital gains tax campaign, 1999  
ACOSS submission in response to ACTU ‘Living Wage’ claim, Nov. 1996
ACOSS submission on the Federal Government’s proposed reforms to the industrial relations system, 1996

BOX 7
Files concerning ACOSS including:
ACOSS and Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) One Day Conference on the Integrity of the Income Tax System, 2004
ACOSS relationship with corporations including Telstra, 1999-2002; BHP, 1999-2000
ACOSS organisational development, including Organisational Development Working Party, 2000
ACOSS membership and income generation, 1996-1998
ACOSS Congress, 2001
Australian Inquiry into the Wealth Divide: ACOSS and Brotherhood of St Laurence, 2001

BOX 8
General ACOSS files including correspondence, media releases, memoranda, reports, notes, newscuttings etc. 1998-2000
ACOSS Congress, 16-17 Nov. 2000
ACOSS submission to the Senate Select Committee on Superannuation, May 2002
‘Is the job network working?’: ACOSS analysis, Aug. 2000

BOX 9
General ACOSS files including correspondence, media releases, memoranda, reports, notes, newscuttings, newsletters, etc. Includes material relating to ‘Fighting unemployment campaign’, complexity in the social security system, social security fraud, ‘Youth homelessness pilot programme’, ca. 1996-2000

BOX 10
Files concerning ACOSS’ response to the Federal Government’s tax package and Goods and Services Tax, 1998

BOX 11
Files concerning ACOSS Board meeting, Sept. 2002; Canadian Social Welfare Policy Conference, 2003; Pre-budget consultation between representatives from ACOSS and the Dept. of Family and Community Services, 1999; ACOSS: ‘Budget 2000, making the Coalition work’, Feb. 2000; ACOSS: corporate sector fundraising and partnerships, 2002-2003

BOX 12
Files concerning corporate supporters’ strategy, 2002; ACOSS: ‘Work, wages, welfare’, 2000; NTEU National Council Discussion on Taxation Policy, 2003; Uniting Care ‘National Pancake Day’, 24 Feb. 2004; ACOSS: globalisation and the challenge for Australia, 1998-2002; housing and homelessness, 1997-1998

BOX 13
Files concerningsubmissions, reports, speeches and conferences including Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia Conference, Mar. 1998; multiculturalism and immigration, 1998; NTCOSS Conference, Mar. 2004; ACOSS National Member Organisations meeting, Mar. 2001; welfare and inequality, 2002-2003; research material for speeches, 2002for speeches, 2002

BOX 14
Files concerning speeches, reports and papers presented at conferences and forums including: 
TasCOSS 5th Human Services Conference, 18-19 Feb. 1999
Address to the Business Council of Australia’s ‘New Directions’ Conference, 29 Apr. 1999
Communities Helping Young People Conference, 20 May 1999
CIVICUS National Forum, 25-26 Mar. 1999
ACROD Employment Forum, 19 July 1999
Social welfare and social development in the new millennium: ICSW Asia Pacific Regional Conference, 14-17 Sept. 1999
8th National Meals on Wheels Conference, 7-10 Sept. 1999
‘Different sides of the fence’, 2nd Biennial South West Sydney Community Sector Conference, 1999
‘Centrelink: viewed from the community sector’, paper for the IPAA Conference, 26 Nov. 1998
31st Annual PHAA Conference, 26-29 Sept, 1999

BOX 15
Files concerning speeches, reports and papers presented at conferences and forums, including: 
Medicare, 1999-2000
31st Annual Public Health Association of Australia Conference, 26-29 Sept. 1999
Savings policy and superannuation, 1999-2000
Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) Conference, 21 July 1999
‘Work for the Dole’: briefing paper, 2000
‘Multilateral Agreement on Investment’: preliminary submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties from the Australian Council of Social Service, 1998
Philanthropy and business community partnerships, 1997-2000
‘Learning and work: the situation of young Australians', 11 Nov. 1997
ACOSS policy positions and statements in relation to Native Title and reconciliation, 1997-2000

BOX 16
Files concerning speeches and reports presented at conferences and forums, including:
‘Closing the Gap’: Federal Election Forum, Alice Spring, Aug. 2001
Indigenous people and welfare reform, 2001
National Education and Employment Forum, 16-17 Aug, 2001
Australian Association of Social Workers Conference, 26 Sept. 2001
Australasian Evaluation Society, 10-12 Oct. 2001
National COTA Congress, 12-13 Nov. 2000
Adult Learning Australia Conference, 24-26 Nov. 2000
‘Budgeting for Australia’s future’, Australian Business Limited, 22 Nov. 2000
Oral Health Think Tank, 11 May 2001
ACE National Network Conference, 25-27 Apr. 2001
Armidale Chamber of Commerce, 20 June 2001

BOX 17
Files concerning speeches and reports presented at meetings, conferences and forums including:
ACTU Executive meeting, 1 Nov. 2000; Living Wage case, 2000
Work, Wages and Welfare Working Party meeting, 2001
Major charities meeting, June 2001
Sydney Leadership Forum, Feb. 2002
ACOSS: challenge to the parties, 2001
Job Futures: competitive tendering, 1999

BOX 18
Files concerning submissions, speeches and reports presented at meetings, conferences and forums including:
Report on unemployment, University of Melbourne, 9 Aug. 1999; University of Newcastle, 24 Sept. 1999
ACOSS: Service Delivery in Government Conference, 11 May, 2000
Community Housing Conference, 2000
ACOSS: ‘Common cause: relationships and reforms in community services’, Nov. 1999
ACOSS Congress address, 1999
WACOSS Conference, 2000
Canberra meetings, 30 Aug. 2000
Family and Community Services and ACOSS meeting, 10 Aug. 2000

BOX 19
Files concerning submissions, reports and speeches presented at conferences and forums including National Conference on Volunteering, 1998; Institute of Public Administration Australia National Conference, 21 Nov. 1997; Carers Association of Australia, 1998; ACOSS: inequality, poverty and joblessness in Australia, Feb. 2000; unemployment and minimum wages, 1998-1999

BOX 20
Files concerning welfare reform including Disability Support Pension reform; the McClure Review; Welfare Reform Conference, 9-10 Nov. 2000; Welfare reform legislation; welfare reform and social security breach penalties; 1999-2005
‘Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee, inquiry into participation requirements and penalties’, prepared by the Welfare Rights Centre, Sydney, for the National Welfare Rights Network, 2002
Social Security breaches: issues and background papers, 1997-2001

BOX 21
Files concerning welfare reform including ‘Australians Working Together’ legislation, 2002; Welfare to Work proposals, 2005; ACOSS Welfare to Work delegation, Aug. 2005; ‘Pathways to work: preventing and reducing long-term unemployment’, 2001

BOX 22
Files relating to tax reform and the Goods and Services Tax including material relating to the Tax Reform Working Party, Tax Reform Forum, Community Welfare Sector meeting on tax reform; 1998

BOX 23
Files concerning the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the GST and the new tax system, 1998; Senate Select Committee on a New Tax System, 1999; ACOSS’ response to Democrat’s negotiations on new tax system, 1999

BOX 24
Files concerning tax reform, including tax reform analysis; business tax reform proposals; response to Ralph Report; ACOSS: ‘Agenda for tax reform, background to the ACOSS proposals’; launch of ACOSS tax reform document; ‘The effects of tax reform on older Australians and carers’, 1998-2000

BOX 25
Files concerning breaches and penalties in the social security system including:
‘Social Security breach penalties: issues of administration’, Ombudsman’s report, 2002
Proposal for an independent commission of inquiry, 2000
Report of the Independent Review of Breaches and Penalties in the Social Security System, 2002
ACOSS Submission to the Independent Review of Breaches and Penalties in the Social Security System, 2001

BOX 26
Files concerning the Report of the Breaching Review Taskforce, Dec. 2004

BOX 27
Files concerning welfare reform including welfare dependency and reforming the welfare state, 1999; ACOSS and the review of the welfare system, 1999; ACOSS submission to the Reference Group on Welfare Reform, 1999; ACOSS checklist for fair welfare reform, 2000; government’s response to the McClure Report, 2000; ACOSS presentation to Welfare Reform Consultative Forum, 8 May 2001

BOX 28
Files concerning reconciliation, welfare reform and poverty, including:
Justice and reconciliation; Corroboree 2000; treaty; 2000
‘Workfare’; ‘Work for the Dole’; welfare reform; ‘Beyond dependency’ Conference Handbook; 1997
‘The Commission of audit and social security: adequacy, affordability, and work incentives’, 1996
ACOSS: social security and housing; 1996
ACOSS and Australian Conservation Foundation Social and Environment Justice Project, 2000-2001
Poverty and inequality; social inclusion and poverty, 2001-2002

BOX 29
Files concerning anti-poverty week: 13-17 Oct. 2003; public policy issues, 2004; Centrelink errors, 2005; debt in the Youth Allowance system, 2002, ACOSS papers and speeches, 2001

BOX 30
Files relating to the Welfare Rights Centre and National Welfare Rights Network, 2002-2005, including general papers; National Welfare Rights Network Planning Conference, 2002; Welfare Rights Network website, 2004; ALP family payment proposals, 2004

BOX 31
Files relating to Welfare to Work legislation and implementation, including ‘Monitoring the effects of Welfare to Work Changes’, 2006; Welfare to Work proposals, June 2005; Disability Support Pension and Parenting Payment reform, 2005; Welfare to Work legislation: Senate Inquiry, 2006

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