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Progress on Crowd-sourced Equity Funding Too Slow?

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 20th May 2015 - The Federal Opposition claims the Abbott Government is dragging its feet on reforms to introduce national Crowd-sourced Equity Funding (CSEF) laws. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten…

NYC Mayor Spends $100 Million on Homeless

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 12th May 2015 - The Mayor of New York City will spend more on tackling homelessness over the next year than the Abbott Government did on its entire Rental Affordability Scheme last year. Mayor Bill…

Australia Failing to Close the Gap

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 12th February 2015 - Australia is failing in its attempts to close the gap of disadvantage between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, according to a major new bipartisan report. The Closing the Gap…

Youth Payments Violate Human Rights: Report

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 30th September 2014 - The Abbott Government’s proposed changes to youth payments violate Australia’s human rights obligations, a bipartisan Parliamentary report has found. Australia’s…

State of the Not for Profit Sector Survey Revealed

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 4th September 2014 - Federal Government policy, regulation and funding have been identified as having the biggest negative impacts on the Australian Not for Profit sector, according to a major survey…

A Charitable View of the Abbott Govt’s First Year in Office

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 26th August 2014 - The Not for Profit sector is invited to a challenging discussion with three acclaimed charity leaders about the year that was and what may lie ahead – some 12 months since the…

Charity Sector Red Tape: Online Survey

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th March 2014 - Despite being caught up in the Federal Government’s Repeal Day plans, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) is calling on charities to share their…

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Effect of the Coalition Victory On NFP Salary Packaging

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 12th September 2013 - While the Coalition’s election victory has removed Labor’s proposed changes to the statutory formula for FBT car leasing arrangements there are some new Fringe Benefit…

Abbott’s HECS Volunteering Plan “Needs More Work”

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 19th August 2010 - Volunteering Australia says any plan to set up a volunteer scheme to allow university students to offset some of their HECS debt needs much more work. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott…

Coalition Announces Minister for International Development

Staff Reporter, Friday, 13th August 2010 - Australian aid organisations have welcomed the Coalition’s commitment to have a Minister for International Development should they win the August 21 election. However…

Parties Wrong on Welfare Quarantining – Welfare Rights Centre

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 28th July 2010 - The ALP and the Coalition need to re-think their support for income management and develop workable policies to lift Australians out of welfare and into employment, according to…

NFP’s Reaction Mixed on Labor’s Commitment to Mental Health

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 27th July 2010 - Primary health care organisations have welcomed the Federal Government’s election commitment to invest of $276.9m into additional mental health services but the Australian…

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