New report underlines the need for Loneliness Awareness Week
Posted on 05 Aug 2025
As Australia marks Loneliness Awareness Week, the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre has…
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Sector leaders outline priorities in the ‘Not-for-profit Agenda’
Posted on 05 Aug 2025
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has told the Not-for-profit Agenda that it will retain control…
Australians gave $9 billion in annual tax-deductible donations, study reveals
Posted on 30 Jul 2025
A major study of Australian charitable giving has found that 4.248 million Australian taxpayers…
Not-for-profits still struggling with new self-review returns, amid calls for total revamp
Posted on 30 Jul 2025
Just 20 per cent of not-for-profits have lodged a new self-review return to prove they are exempt…
Game on as Sports Commission calls for opinions on future infrastructure
Posted on 29 Jul 2025
Cold showers in the change rooms could finally be a thing of the past if the Australian Sports…
Minister urges charities to embrace innovation and governance
Posted on 29 Jul 2025
The charity sector must have a strong commitment to innovative and trustworthy governance in order…
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Rising to the challenge of positive change
Posted on 13 Jan 2025
The Smith Family CEO Doug Taylor shares some thoughts on ways sector leaders can make a bigger…
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Choice matters: why better politics needs better politicians
Posted on 18 Feb 2026
You wouldn’t try to fix a complex system with one tool. You’d widen the toolkit, improve the…
People with Purpose: From street kid to community centre hero
Posted on 14 May 2024
As someone who has overcome drug and alcohol addiction, homelessness, family tragedy and a…
People with Purpose: It takes a village to raise a mother
Posted on 30 Apr 2024
Dinah Thomasset has turned her experience as a young mother struggling with postpartum depression…
People with Purpose: 50 years and still going strong
Posted on 24 Apr 2024
Even as a young girl, Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital Foundation CEO Jane Scotcher knew…
People with Purpose: Hutch Hussein is in the house
Posted on 16 Apr 2024
After more than a quarter of a century working tirelessly to improve the lives of disadvantaged…