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It’s time not-for-profits stood united and refused to continue accepting scraps from the table of power, argues CCA CEO David Crosbie in The Community Advocate.

Charities should not be the organisational child in the room, smiling graciously as the grown-up business and government sectors pat our heads and tells us what good boys and girls we are for helping – CCA CEO David Crosbie’s first weekly article in The Community Advocate.

Canberra Times, 5 June: The nature of the climate discussions in Australia needs to be about much more than adapting to our new climate reality. It’s important that we get more Australians involved, more community-level input, about the impact climate change is having in our lives and to empower people to make a tangible difference… An Australian COP31 co-hosted with the Pacific can be a catalyst for communities, businesses, social groups, individuals and families to participate and to have conversations about climate action, leaving behind the mire of climate wars, and moving co-operatively into a new decade of opportunity… That’s what brought a group of like-minded leaders to Canberra this month with the objective of delivering a whole-of-society approach to COP31.

CCA CEO David Crosbie rates the 2023 Budget 3.5 Lamingtons out of 5 for the Our Community and Institute of Community Directors, Our Community Matters Special Budget edition – this year’s go-to summary of sector  reaction to the Federal Budget.

CCA CEO David Crosbie, writes in the Canberra Times: ‘In the narratives behind most law-and-order platforms, we rarely hear words like equality, hope, opportunity. This applies whether we are talking about Western Sydney, Townsville, or even Alice Springs… The one thing we know for certain is that it is charities and community groups who will be left to pick up the pieces after the alarmist politicians and their media entourage leave town.