The Senate Economics Committee has released a Background Paper for the Charities Inquiry – outlining some of the issues around governance and disclosure regimes…
The Children’s Cancer Institute Australia is awaiting the decision of the Victorian Director of Consumer Affairs in its fight to stave off deregistration in that…
The Children’s Cancer Institute Australia is awaiting the decision of the Victorian Director of Consumer Affairs in its fight to stave off deregistration in that…
Australia has a new sustained culture of giving according to an interim 2002 statistical report from Givewell.
The first release of charity funding statistics for the…
The long awaited report by the Federal Government’s Charity Inquiry Committee recommends a new definition of charity to be set down in legislation and to operate within…
The Inquiry into the Definition of Charities and related organisations will make its report to the Federal Government on June 30th after being granted a three-month extension.…
The Federal Government’s Charities Inquiry has attracted some strong submissions, not the least from a consortium of “For Profit” private hospitals in Australia challenging…
Foodbanks around Australia may not technically fit into the definition of a ‘charity’ leaving their services in limbo, operating between the commercial sector and those…
A major accounting firm with a long and active history of involvement in the Not for Profit sector has told the Charities Inquiry that it would be simpler to exempt all NFPs…
The Inquiry into the Definition of Charities has been granted a three-month extension of time to consider some 350 submissions. The Treasurer has given the inquiry until…
As a ‘small avalanche’ of submissions from both Not for Profits and business groups are being considered by the Federal Government’s Inquiry into the Definition of Charities,…
The Women’s Legal Resource Centre has told the Federal Government’s Inquiry into the Definition of Charities that there is a need for much greater clarity about what constitutes…