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Housing affordability dominating community concerns

Contributor, Wednesday, 17th August 2022 -  PDF Button All the latest news from the Councils of Social Service of Australia. Today’s report released by The Actuaries Institute on home insurance affordability reinforces ACOSS’…

Exclusive: “Unfinished business” for not for profit tax system

Danielle Kutchel, Wednesday, 17th August 2022 -  PDF Button One of the authors of a landmark 2013 report on taxation of the not for profit sector has called the recommendations “unfinished business” and says the sector has stalled

Australia could reap billions in benefits if we fix housing: report

Danielle Kutchel, Wednesday, 17th August 2022 -  PDF Button A cost-benefit analysis has proven the worth of fixing the nation’s critical shortage of social and affordable housing. Every dollar invested in social and affordable

New income tax reporting requirements for not for profits

Samantha Freestone, Tuesday, 16th August 2022 -  PDF Button New income tax reporting requirements will come into play in 2023 and affect up to 140,000 organisations. Is yours one of them?  From July next year there will be different

(Prime) Minister for Social Services? Reports Morrison held sixth portfolio

Danielle Kutchel, Tuesday, 16th August 2022 -  PDF Button Revelations around the former PM’s portfolio grabs during the pandemic continue to rock politics, as experts question how Morrison could have been secretly sworn in to

New national grants for early childhood

Danielle Kutchel, Tuesday, 16th August 2022 -  PDF Button Applications open this week for a series of grants that will help strengthen families with young children. Organisations that work with families with young children are

Cocky Guides rides the accessible tourism wave

Danielle Kutchel, Monday, 15th August 2022 -  PDF Button As accessible tourism continues to grow, one social enterprise is running ground-breaking multisensory trips around Australia. An Australian social enterprise is

Opinion

This month in ESG: legislation, lovers and livestock

Terence Jeyaretnam, Monday, 15th August 2022 -  PDF Button Terence Jeyaretnam takes us through the top 10 ESG markers for July. July saw significant ESG momentum including a red alert on the likelihood of all life in oceans being…

Happenings on the hill

Focus on Politics: New South Wales

Angus Crowther, Monday, 15th August 2022 -  PDF Button With this revolving door of politicians, who needs Ramsay Street when we have so much drama in Macquarie Street? In about six months, the people of New South Wales will be…

Government  to “drill down” on possible ESG legislation in early 2023

Samantha Freestone, Monday, 15th August 2022 -  PDF Button Federal Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones tells Pro Bono News greenwashing is “definitely an issue”. The Federal Minister for Financial Services Stephen

Australian team creates concrete made from car tyres 

Samantha Freestone, Monday, 15th August 2022 -  PDF Button New research shows a cleaner, greener way to create roads and infrastructure. Engineers at the Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne have created

Trachoma eliminated in Vanuatu

Samantha Freestone, Monday, 15th August 2022 -  PDF Button Vanuatu is the first Pacific island country to eliminate trachoma as a “public health problem”.  The world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, trachoma is no longer
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