Gender equality advocates say a guide on how to lobby women’s issues to parliamentarians will help take advocacy to the next level. The toolkit, released last Thursday,…
A Catholic education charity which criticised the Turnbull government’s schools funding policy during a by-election campaign is confident it has not breached charity…
When it comes to investigating the Catholic Education Melbourne, nothing seen in the last few days suggests the ACNC is doing anything other than what a good regulator should…
It’s important that charities and civil society organisations turn their attention to state and territory electoral laws, writes Krystian Seibert.Since the end of last…
Mobilising public support on a confused sector brand, will not serve your cause. Particularly as conservative politics comes at advocacy, writes Emma Lang.Some big wins…
At a time when our society feels out of balance, Australia needs charities which are not only effective but also confident in who they are, writes Krystian Seibert.In many…
The Australian charity sector has “drawn a line in the sand” and demanded that any foreign interference legislation meets a number of principles to protect issues-based…
The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund have unveiled a new five year strategy that puts Australia’s not-for-profit sector leaders, as well as advocacy and policy change,…
The UK Lobbying Act has concretely affected charities and voluntary organisations, and has seen people’s voices go missing from the political debate, a new report has …
New guidelines from the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on political expenditure has left the charity sector “confused and uncertain”, with fears that charitable…
Labor has called for charities to be exempted from the controversial foreign donations bill, with opposition leader Bill Shorten saying he won’t support “anything that…
Although the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters made a laudable attempt to address the various flaws in the Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform Bill, there…