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Why the Community Sector is Different from the Rest

Staff Reporter, Monday, 12th December 2011 -  The community sector is a different place. They do things differently there. It’s not that its leadership lacks entrepreneurial spirit: without enterprising endeavour…

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Gay Marriage Debate Has a Long Way to Go

Staff Reporter, Friday, 9th December 2011 -  Flickr image: Some rights reserved by San Diego Shooter  On the weekend the ALP party conference voted to amend the party platform on same sex marriage.…

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What Equal Pay in the Community Sector Means to Me

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 24th November 2011 -  Angela Pollard, is the manager of the Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre and a longtime community sector worker. This piece was first published on November 17 2011 in the Northern…

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‘Why Australia Should Abandon the Refugee Convention’

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 22nd November 2011 -  With the collapse of offshore processing, and the likely increase in boat arrivals into a politically charged environment, a cross-road may have been reached regarding asylum policy…

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Why Reinvention is Important for the Social Sector

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 15th November 2011 -  There is a new buzzword in town – reinvention.  Capitalism is being reinvented, so is management, and it has the Westpac Group's Kerry Graham wondering…

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A Peak Into the Future of Private Philanthropy

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 2nd November 2011 -  To mark the tenth birthday of contemporary philanthropy in Australia – the creation of prescribed Private Fund or PPF – philanthropist and Executive Chairman of HSC…

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‘Queue Jumping’ the Hot Button for Australians

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 26th October 2011 -    This article is by Matthew Thompson and was first published by The Conversation.  It is republished here under CreativeCommons– Attribution/No…

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Why the Occupying Wall Street Movement Hates Business

Staff Reporter, Monday, 17th October 2011 - 
With the Occupy Wall Street Protest spreading around the globe, Macquarie Group Foundation Professor at the Centre for Social Impact, Peter Shergold, examines the backlash against…

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London Riots – Blaming Young People is Not the Answer: Opinion

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 24th August 2011 -  The recent riots in London should be seen as a call to action on how Australia responds to the disenfranchised, the alienated, the excluded and the marginalised, according to Jan Owen,…

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Lack of NFP “Harmonisation“ Intolerable – Fitzgerald

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 5th May 2011 -  Charities Inquiry Productivity Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald says it is almost intolerable that three years on from the commencement of the Not for Profit reform process there…

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New Book Advocates NFP Manifesto for Change

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 7th April 2011 -  A soon-to-be-published Australian book controversially sets out a radical manifesto for change in the Not for Profit sector, including expunging the word ‘charity’…

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What is all the RSS about?

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 17th March 2011 -  Being current with information need not be a hard task. There are simple tools, often free, that can make capturing information pertinent for Not for Profits fairly simple. That is…

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