Danielle Kutchel, Wednesday, 20th July 2022 - As advocates mark the milestone, one refugee is bringing a case to the Federal Court to try and end the use of hotels as places of detention.Australia’s offshore detention system has…
Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 23rd August 2017 - An attempt by the National Disability Insurance Agency to appeal a ruling that the agency must fully fund supports accepted as “reasonable and necessary” under the National Disability…
Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 19th April 2017 -
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is to appeal a Federal Court decision over funding arrangements for transport costs under the National Disability Insurance Scheme…
Lina Caneva, Thursday, 16th March 2017 -
The Federal Court has found self-proclaimed fundraiser and fake cancer survivor Belle Gibson guilty of misleading and deceptive conduct in relation to claims about her charitable…
Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 26th October 2016 -
The not-for-profit anti-gambling advocacy group, Alliance for Gambling Reform, is supporting a landmark federal court battle, with a former poker machine addict, against Crown…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 10th December 2015 -
The Federal Court has awarded financial compensation and quashed “serious risk” claims made by a government quality assurance agency against the Queensland Baptist…
Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 24th November 2015 -
An Australian organisation that claimed to be a charity and spent more than $1 million on luxury cars for its members has lost a Federal Court appeal to keep receiving charitable tax…
Xavier Smerdon, Friday, 20th February 2015 -
The Federal Court has ordered the Australian promoters of an AIDS pharmaceuticals donation scheme to pay $1.5 million to the Australian Taxation Office, the highest civil penalty…
Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 15th July 2014 -
The Australian Tax Office has decided not to appeal a Federal Court decision giving national Not for Profit, the Hunger Project, Public Benevolent Institution status – paving…
Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 17th June 2014 - A Federal Court decision in the case of The Hunger Project Australia v Commissioner of Taxation is set to change the outcomes for many charities previously denied Public Benevolent…
Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 11th February 2014 -
The successful prosecution of a former CEO of an Aboriginal medical service for embezzling funds has been applauded by the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre (AILC).
The AILC’s…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 16th January 2014 -
The Federal Government will introduce a new payment scheme for employees with intellectual disabilities that work in Australian Disability Enterprises but peak Not for Profits…