COMMUNITY COUNCIL FOR AUSTRALIA
We are an independent member-based peak body dedicated to building flourishing communities by enhancing the extraordinary work of Australia’s not-for-profit sector. We do this by changing the way governments, communities and the not-for-profit sector relate to one another.In particular, this includes establishing a regulatory environment that works for community organisations - not against them. Find out more...
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Attached is CCA's joint submission to the the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs and the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) on Corporations and Financial Services on the ACNC Bills 2012 and the Tax Laws Amendment (Special Conditions for not-for-profit concessions) Bill 2012. CCA will appear at the hearings for both Committee's Inquiries.
Today the Bills to establish the ACNC were introduced to the House of Representatives by the Assistant Treasurer The Hon. David Bradbury MP. Debate has been adjourned until the 10th of September.
You can read the Bills here.
And read the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Social Inclusion's joint media release below.
Mark Butler MP
Minister for Social Inclusion
David Bradbury MP
‘After decades of discussion, the time has come for real reform for the charitable sector,’ according to Rev Tim Costello, Chair of the Community Council for Australia (CCA) and CEO of World Vision.
CCA's 2012 Annual General Meeting was held on the 27th of June at Parliament House in Canberra. 24 CCA members attended the Senate Committee Room meeting and were joined the Assistant Treasurer the Hon. David Bradbury MP over lunch. Minister Bradbury provided an update for members on the government's NFP reform agenda, providing some insight into the ACNC legislation and answering questions from members around the government's 'Better Targeting' initative.
