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Content Type:
Policy Submission
18 Feb 2013
On Friday, 15 February 2013 we made a submission to Treasury on the consultation paper: Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission - Financial Reporting Requirements.
In the submission, we offered our broad support for the draft requirements however, suggested some changes required and ...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
30 Aug 2012
This submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee is in regards to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012 and the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (Consequential and Transitional) Bill 2012.
We note in the submission that...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
30 Aug 2012
This submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services is in regards to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012 and the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (Consequential and Transitional) Bill 2012.
We note ...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
15 Mar 2012
Our recent policy submissions span the not-for-profit (NFP) sector, anti-phoenix legislation and dividend payments.
What underpins the rationale for our policy team making submissions in relation to each of these issues is how they affect our members.
Australian Cha...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
27 Feb 2012
This submission is in response to the Discussion Paper “Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission: Implementation Design”, released by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) Implementation Task Force on 9 December 2011.
Company Directors commended the T...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
27 Jan 2012
This submission is in response to the Consultation Paper “Review of not-for-profit governance arrangements”, released by the Federal Government on 8 December 2011.
Our submission began by outlining a number of concerns with the consultation, including the continued practice of Federal Treasury an...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
27 Jan 2012
This submission is in response to the Draft Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012, released by the Federal Government on 9 December 2011.
Our submission begins by outlining a number of concerns with the consultation, including the continued practice of Federal Treasury and the Federa...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
16 Dec 2011
This submission is in response to a consultation paper titled “A Definition of Charity”, released by the Federal Government on 28 October 2011.
Our submission put forward that there should be no alteration to the current presumption that charities falling within particular categories...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
15 Dec 2011
These letters to Federal Government Treasury Ministers regard the lack of adequate time being allowed by the Government for the preparation of submissions and other consultation with business and stakeholders on reform proposals and legislative changes.
The letters to Treasurer Wayne Swan, the A...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
05 Sep 2011
This submission to the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services is in response to the Draft Tasmanian Health Organisations Bill 2011 (the Draft Bill), released on 11 August 2011.
While some of the aspects of the Draft Bill represent an improvement on similar legislation that has been pr...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
18 Feb 2011
This submission to Federal Treasury sets out our views on the Consultation Paper titled “Scoping Study for a National Not-for-Profit Regulator”, released by the Federal Government on 21 January 2011.
The submission noted Company Directors’ support for the overal...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
15 Nov 2010
On 15 November 2010, the Australian Institute of Company Directors wrote to the Department of Health and Ageing in response to a Discussion Paper “Medicare Locals - Discussion Paper on Governance and Functions”. The submission set out our views on various governance aspects of Medicare Locals. In p...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
11 Jun 2010
On 9 June 2010, the Australian Institute of Company Directors wrote to the Hon Chris Bowen MP regarding the test for the payment of dividends included in the Corporations Amendment (Corporate Reporting Reform) Bill 2010. Pursuant to the Bill companies will need to ensure that amongst other things, t...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
22 Apr 2010
On 22 April 2010 the Australian Institute of Company Directors lodged a submission with the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) relating to the AASB’s Exposure Draft 192 Differential Reporting Framework and the accompanying consultation paper Differential Financial Reporting – Reducing Disc...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
02 Mar 2010
We are concerned that current laws on insolvent trading sometimes prevent the best stakeholder outcomes from being achieved. They make trading out of insolvency not only extremely risky but they prohibit it for the directors of a company in solvency stress. Each director faces being held personally ...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
03 Feb 2010
In a submission dated 3 February 2010 AICD provided its comments to Federal Treasury on the exposure draft of the Corporations Amendment (Corporate Reporting Reform) Bill 2010. AICD supported most of the proposed amendments, although it expressed opposition to changing the current wording of the dir...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
22 Dec 2009
AICD argues in this submission that the proposed guide has a useful educative purpose but that its limitations should be clearly acknowledged including that it does not represent the law or judicial interpretation. The guide fails to acknowledge at a number of levels the difference between the roles...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
24 Nov 2009
On 24 November 2009, AICD provided a submission in response to the Productivity Commission’s draft research report into the Contribution of the Not-for-Profit Sector. The submission strongly supported the recommendation made by the Commission that Australian governments should support and promote tr...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
18 Feb 2009
NSW Inquiry into University Governance
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
23 Sep 2008
AICD believes that a ‘light touch’ needs to be applied in reforming not-for-profit (NFP) regulation so that volunteers and donors are not dissuaded by red tape from contributing their time, expertise and money to the sector. Cost burdens need to be balanced against the benefits of any regulatory reg...