06 April, 2015

Environment groups forced to justify tax deductability


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nvironmental groups and the market system favoured by Australia’s Federal Government have long been at loggerheads.

The prevailing market system, despite what many businesses suggest, cares primarily about profits and illustrates little concern for the environment.

And now the market-drive Abbott-led Coalition Government disenfranchise environment group in anyway it can.

An April 1 interview on Radio National by host Fran Kelly - “Parliamentary inquiry into environmental organisations' donation spending on RN Breakfast” – discusses the reality that environmental groups could soon be facing a fight to hold on to their tax deductible donations.

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