Our Community Statements and Submissions

Below you can download some of the statements and submissions that Our Community has posted, usually in relation to a government inquiry or call for comments on a particular subject that impacts on the not-for-profit sector

• Official statement regarding the SmartyGrants outage affecting Business Queensland's Business Basics Grants Program (Round 3)
  [May 2022]
  
• Submission to Treasury: Voluntary Transparency Code for not-for-profit organisations involved with donations during emergencies is "misguided".
  [July 2021]
  
• Submission to Treasury: Voluntary Transparency Code for not-for-profit organisations involved with donations during emergencies is "misguided".
  [July 2021]
  
• Open letter: Our Community describes Charitable Fundraising National Working Group report as a "national disgrace"
  [September 2020]
  
• Media statement: Our Community welcomes ALP's charities policy
  [March 2019]
  
• Opinion Piece: "It's time to throw out the old boys of the Council for the Order of Australia"
  [February 2016]
• Submission to the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) regarding the Commissioner's Interpretation Statement on withholding or removing commercially sensitive information from the ACNC Register
  [September 2015]
• Submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee on the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (Repeal) (No. 1) Bill 2014
  [May 2014]
• Response to Charity Fundraising Cost article which appeared in The Age newspaper on 21/12/2013
  [January 2014]
• Submission to Treasury in response to the Consultation Paper on Regulatory Impact Assessment of Potential Duplication of Governance and Reporting Standards for Charities
  [March 2013]
• Submission to Treasury in response to the consultation paper on the taxation of Australian not-for-profit organisations
  [January 2013]
• Submission to Treasury on governance standards for the not-for-profit sector
  [January 2013]
• Submission to Consumer Affairs Victoria on revised regulations under the Associations Incorporation Act
  [October 2012]
• Statement on why the not-for-profit sector should stand behind the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
  [October 2012]
• Submission to Treasury in response to the Consultation Paper on the Definition of Charity
  [November 2011]