Submission: Remake of Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal fees
The Department of Justice and Community Safety has proposed three options for remaking the VCAT fee Regulations. COTA Victoria and Seniors Rights Victoria support Option 3.
Policy
Submission to the Inquiry into Voting Centre Accessibility
In making this submission, we highlight the importance of specifically addressing the needs of older people, both as a large proportion of those living with a disability and in relation to other aspects of ageing that also impact on accessibility and support needs
Submission to City of Melbourne’s Community Infrastructure Plan
COTA Victoria commends the current draft Community Infrastructure Plan; the feedback provided through this submission is intended to strengthen the Plan rather than reframe it.
Submission to the Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence, and suicide
Evidence suggests that elder abuse is a significant, growing, and distinct form of family violence that intersects with suicide risk in later life yet remains inadequately captured within current systems. Improving the visibility of elder abuse across prevention, service delivery, data collection, and coronial investigation is critical to strengthening DFSV-related suicide prevention and ensuring that older people are not overlooked in policy, practice, and reform efforts.
Our impact: How our 2025 advocacy has affected older Victorians
For close to 75 years, COTA Victoria and Seniors Rights Victoria have worked alongside older people to shape policies, services, and systems that support safety, dignity, inclusion, and quality of life.
Older Victorians Shaping Communities: Supporting leadership in later life
Older Victorians play vital roles leading advocacy and action to improve communities. They do this through a diverse range of formal and informal groups and activities, often on a voluntary basis. Encouraging and supporting this leadership is a crucial part of making Victoria a place that respects, engages and benefits from its older citizens.
Older Victorians Shaping Communities: Tips to step into leadership
Are you an older Victorian interested in taking on a leadership role in your community? This resource outlines practical first steps to help you get started.
Submission on draft Ministerial Guidelines for Payment of Rates and Charges
We are pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the finalisation of new guidelines on payment of rates and charges to local councils across Victoria.
Member briefing: Digital inclusion for older Australians with a disability
Digital inclusion is about ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to connect, participate, and benefit from the digital world in their everyday lives.
COTA Victoria Strategic Plan 2025-2030
COTA Victoria Strategic Plan 2025-2030: We improve the lives of Victorians as they age: by championing the strengths, desires, and decisions of older people.
Victorian Elder Abuse Strategic Alliance (VEASA) – Submission for the Victorian State Budget 2026-27
This submission reflects emerging pressures across Victoria’s elder abuse and family violence systems. It calls for strategic investment through the 2026–27 Victorian State Budget to strengthen prevention, early intervention, response, and recovery.
Investing in ageing well: Submission for the Victorian State Budget 2026-27
We set out a select collection of funding initiatives under the umbrella of five priority areas that we believe warrant serious consideration across Victorian Government portfolios for support in the 2026-27 Victorian State Budget.
Victorian State Budget 2026–27: Older Victorians’ priorities
Over a three-week consultation, 151 Victorians shared their views on investment gaps and opportunities to improve infrastructure and services that support positive ageing. 80% of responders were aged 65+.
Briefing: Understanding and addressing age discrimination in Victoria
Many older Victorians continue to face unfair treatment simply because of their age. This member briefing explains what age discrimination is, how common it is, the laws that protect against it, and what more might needs to be done to prevent it.
Submission to the review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992
COTA Victoria and Seniors Rights Victoria hear regularly from older Victorians with a disability who have experienced discrimination in workplaces, services and other areas of public life.
Watch on-demand: Older Victorians Shaping Communities – Focus on leadership
As part of the Victorian Seniors Festival 2025, COTA Victoria and Seniors Rights Victoria, in collaboration with Leadership Victoria and Volunteering Victoria, celebrated older Victorians stepping into leadership roles and making a difference in their communities.
Member briefing: Until every Victorian is safe – Third Rolling Action Plan to End Family and Sexual Violence 2025-2027
The Victorian Government has launched Until every Victorian is Safe: Third Rolling Action Plan (RAP) to End Family and Sexual Violence 2025–2027 as part of its commitment to building a future where every person is safe, respected, and free from violence.
Building stronger communities: Understanding loneliness and connection
Our Policy & Advocacy team has been actively exploring how older Victorians experience social connectedness and how we can better support those who feel isolated or disconnected.
Renting in Victoria: What’s changing and what still needs to change
Download briefing as PDF If you’re renting, or care about someone who is, you’ve probably noticed how hard it has
Older people shaping our work: 2024–2025 engagement snapshot
Older Victorians have been at the heart of our research, policy, and advocacy efforts. Here’s how our Policy and Advocacy team has worked with older people, for older people, ensuring their voices influence real change.
Reference guide on intersectionality in elder abuse
This guide has been developed to support practitioners, policymakers, and organisations across various sectors. These include family violence, aged care, disability, legal, health, housing, and social services, all working to adopt an intersectional approach to elder abuse prevention and response.
Aged care reform and multicultural CHSP providers
Our project highlights mixed experiences, hopes and concerns about aged care reform among multicultural CHSP providers.
Agenda for Action: Disability supports for older Victorians 2025-2029
Older Victorians with disability are being systematically under served by existing policy and service frameworks. While the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has improved the lives of many younger people with disability, those who acquire or live with disability beyond the NDIS age threshold are often excluded from comparable levels of support.
Submission to the Inquiry into Community Consultation Practices
Seniors Rights Victoria welcomes the opportunity to contribute to this inquiry into community consultation practices in Victoria.