CHARITIES – AUSTRALIA – REGULATION

Juukan payments stay secret

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Original article by Peter Ker
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 1-Apr-25

The Juukan Gorge Legacy Foundation has been given permission by the Australian Charities & Not-For-Profits Commission to redact most of the information from its annual accounts. The Foundation was established by Rio Tinto and the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people in 2023 as part of an agreement to remedy the iron ore miner’s destruction of Indigenous heritage at Juukan Gorge in 2020, with the Foundation receiving a multimillion-dollar payment from Rio each year. Confirming that the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission had given it permission to redact its accounts, a Foundation spokesman said it was done to "avoid pricing heritage destruction".

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JUUKAN GORGE LEGACY FOUNDATION, AUSTRALIAN CHARITIES AND NOT-FOR-PROFITS COMMISSION, RIO TINTO LIMITED – ASX RIO

Push to clamp down on activist charities

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Original article by John Ferguson
The Australian – Page: 5 : 6-Sep-18

It is understood that some members of the federal coalition want Greenpeace and the Australian Conservation Foundation to lose their charitable status because of their activist views. Both groups encourage their supporters to become politically active on issues such as Adani’s proposed coal mine and the end of power generated from gas and coal. Legislation would be needed to strip the two groups of their charitable status, and it would have to pass both houses of parliament. ACF CEO Kelly O’Shanassy says it abides by the law, a comment echoed by Greenpeace Australia Pacific program director Dominique Rowe.

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GREENPEACE, AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED, AUSTRALIAN CHARITIES AND NOT-FOR-PROFITS COMMISSION, SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, CATHOLIC EDUCATION MELBOURNE

Complaints may spur sham charity clampdown

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Original article by Nassim Khadem
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 40 : 9-Jul-14

Taxation experts predict a crackdown on businesses that obtain tax-exempt status by setting up fake charities. Such abuses account for about a quarter of the 805 complaints received by the Australian Charities & Not-for-profits Commission since it began operating in May 2014. The Federal Government wants to scrap the watchdog and hand responsibility for the charities sector back to the Australian Taxation Office

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AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE, AUSTRALIAN CHARITIES AND NOT-FOR-PROFITS COMMISSION, WEALTH SAFE PTY LTD