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New Forum to Develop and Support Philanthropy Established

Rachel McFadden, Tuesday, 6th June 2017 - After years in the making a new parliamentary group between parliamentarians and philanthropists has formed. The Parliamentary Friends of Philanthropy Group, established in…

Labor Creates New Shadow Ministry for Charities

Ellie Cooper, Monday, 25th July 2016 - Andrew Leigh has been appointed to the newly created position of shadow minister for charities and Not for Profits as part of Labor leader Bill Shorten’s front bench shakeup. Leigh…

Political Parties Need to Forge New Relationship with Charity Sector – Forum

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 14th June 2016 - There is a need for a more respectful relationship with the Australian charity and Not for Profit sector, a political forum in Canberra has been told. The Community Council …

Opinion

Connected Communities: How Australia’s Social Capital Has Declined

Andrew Leigh, Thursday, 27th August 2015 - One of the central challenges of the decline in social capital is that the factors driving it are not things we would want to reverse, writes Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh.…

Opinion

Silence on the Agenda for Enviro-Charity Inquiry

Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 16th June 2015 - It’s hard to see the Abbott Government’s inquiry into the Deductible Gift Recipient Status of environmental charities as anything except a show trial, writes the Shadow…

Keeping the Charities Commission Opens Door to Real Reform

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 24th February 2015 - After more than a year of campaigning by the Federal Government to ditch it, support for the charity regulator, the ACNC has barely wavered and now it’s time that Minister Morrison…

Catholic Church Softens on ACNC Abolition – Opposition

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 10th September 2014 - The Federal Labor Opposition says the Catholic Church appears to have moved away from its support for Government plans to scrap the national charity regulator, the ACNC. In…

Labor Renews Call to Keep ACNC

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 21st August 2014 - The Federal Opposition has again thrown its support behind the Australian charity regulator, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission, saying the watchdog is…

Govt to Open Consultation on ACNC Replacement

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 24th June 2014 - The Federal Government is about to open consultations with the Not for Profit sector on a replacement for the national charity regulator – despite the legislation to repeal…

Debate Delay on ACNC Abolition

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 27th March 2014 - Legislation to abolish the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission will now be debated in Parliament after the May Budget, as the Federal Coalition Government’s…

Mixed Bag for NFPs on Red Tape Repeal Day

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th March 2014 - The Not for Profit sector can expect a mixed bag of changes, including legislation to abolish Australia’s charity regulator as part of the Federal Coalition Government’s…

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