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Poor Cancer Survival in Indigenous Children – Report

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th March 2014 -  Indigenous Australian children are 36 per cent more likely to die within five years of a cancer diagnosis than non-Indigenous Australian children, a landmark report has found.

Community Leaders Reject Changes to Race Hate Laws

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th March 2014 -  Not for Profits and ethnic community representatives have expressed their “vehement opposition” to proposed changes to sections of the Racial Discrimination Act by the Federal Government.

IT Trends for Not for Profit Organisations

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th March 2014 -  In 2014, Information Technology (IT) will play a significant role in assisting Not for Profit organisations to become more productive and accommodate new government regulations.

Andrews Rejects Sector Plea to Save ACNC

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th March 2014 -  The Federal Minister for Social Services, Kevin Andrews, has publicly rejected a last ditch appeal by the Not for Profit sector to try to save the national charity regulator.

Proof of Midlife Crisis

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th March 2014 -  Social economists from the University of Melbourne have confirmed the age-old suspicion of a dip in human happiness during middle age - the midlife crisis!

Two-stage Plan to Abolish ACNC

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 19th March 2014 -  The Federal Government says it has a two-stage plan to abolish the ACNC in line with its election promise to demolish the charity regulator.

Australia’s Concerning Poverty Rates – OECD Report

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 19th March 2014 -  A new global report reveals that relative poverty in Australia (14.4 per cent of the population) is higher than the OECD average (11.3 per cent).

ACNC In Repeal Day Bonfire

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 19th March 2014 -  Prime Minister Tony Abbott has placed the abolition of the charity regulator, the ACNC on the top of his repeal day hit list describing the process as the biggest bonfire of regulations in the country’s history.

Open Letter Last Attempt to Save ACNC

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 19th March 2014 -  On the eve of the Federal Coalition’s Parliamentary Repeal legislation being introduced into parliament, more than 40 peak bodies and Not for Profit sector leaders have put their names to an open letter to the Prime Minister in a last ditch attempt to save the charity regulator, the ACNC.

Anti-vaccination Charity Barred from Fundraising

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th March 2014 -  Controversial anti-vaccination organisation - the Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network has been deregistered as a charity by the NSW Government.

The Australia Council Must Hold Firm on ‘Arm’s Length’ Funding

Opinion

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th March 2014 -  The ongoing furore surrounding the corporate funding of the 2014 Sydney Biennale involves hard issues – “hard” as in “real” and “difficult to solve”, writes Julian Meyrick, Professor of Strategic Arts at Flinders University, in this piece first published on The Conversation.

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 Repeal Day bid to scrap more than 9000 regulations to cut red tape.
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