CCA provides media commentary on issues important to charities and NFPs and CCA CEO David Crosbie writes fortnightly in the Community Advocate on sector issues. We keep our member CEOs and senior staff up to date via CCA’s Daily Diary – a frank daily analysis of the national context, issues and news of interest to charity leaders (all in a two-minute read). Charity leaders who would like to know more, please contact our Partnerships Manager, Deborah Smith, info@communitycouncil.com.au
For CCA, one of the main concerns about government grants is the lack of active engagement or meaningful dialogue between the charity and not-for-profit sector and grant-giving agencies about how government contracting can be improved, writes CEO David Crosbie in the Community Advocate.
CCA CEO David Crosbie writes for the Community Advocate: ‘The work of our sector is clearly an antidote to the dog whistling grievance politics that serves the interests of a small minority already emboldened by individual power and money. Our work is about unity, about shared experience, about promoting opportunity and hope. Collectively, we have a lot of work to do in 2026. We need to build engagement and strengthen the bonds that enable us to belong, to establish shared goals, to emphasise the “we” rather than them and us, and to act collectively.
This submission outlines ten measures the Community Council for Australia (CCA) believes will significantly strengthen Australia’s not-for-profit (NFP) sector to support our communities and drive real economic savings for government over the coming financial year and beyond.
What an amazing 2025: some real highlights, issues of concern, steps forward and back, good times and not-so-welcome times. Through it all I continued to be uplifted by the amazing people I get to work with and at times represent from across the charities and not-for-profit sector, writes CCA CEO David Crosbie in the Community Advocate.
One year after the Australian Human Rights Commission launched the country’s first national roadmap to eliminate racism, civil society organisations are calling on the Australian government to urgently fund and implement the National Anti-Racism Framework.
CEOs in our sector can see the potential of technology and AI. They want their organisations to do better by drawing on emerging technologies, but if the only way they can do that is by reducing services to the community they serve, how does that work? ‘Emerging technology offers both real benefits and real risk. If Australia is to become more innovative and productive, if we are to ensure our safety and maintain our values, investment in technology for the charities and NFP sector should be a very high priority,’ writes CCA CEO David Crosbie for the Community Advocate.
