The very last sitting weeks of parliament this yr have supplied each true and horrific information for Australian charities.
Last week supplied the best information, with new authorities guidelines that might have curtailed the capacity of charities to have interaction in protest disallowed through the Senate, that means they may now no longer take effect.
Charities had been relieved to peer this, as many confronted the possibility of getting to tug returned on positive advocacy activities.
But this week delivered the horrific information, with modifications to electoral legal guidelines exceeded through parliament in an effort to impose extra law on charities and different organizations that have interaction withinside the electoral process.
Despite severe lobbying through a coalition of charities, a last-minute deal among the Morrison authorities and the competition brought about the bill’s passage, albeit with a few amendments that barely reduce its poor impact.