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Members can appoint independent directors to the board if it is in the rule book. An independent director is a director who is not a member. They usually have special skills or knowledge.
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An officer of a corporation is someone who is involved in making decisions that affect the business of the corporation and can greatly affect the corporation’s financial standing.
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Every corporation and the Registrar need to keep a record of director appointments and the personal details of each director. Director personal details are:
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Mingaletta Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation has been running activities, programs and services that support health, welfare and education for 20 years. In 2022, it hired its first employee – a volunteer who had been there from the beginning.
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The healthy corporation checklist allows you to check your corporation’s compliance with the rule book and the law.
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Our new system for lodging forms and reports – myCorp – is now available. Thank you for your patience during this…
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Your corporation size determines whether you have a contact person or a secretary.Contact personIf your corporation's size is small or medium it will have a contact person.
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Corporations should regularly review their rule book to make sure their rules still work for them. What works for your corporation is likely to change over time, especially if your objectives change or operations grow.
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When a corporation gives an asset or money to a person or group with a close relationship to the corporation, this is called a giving a related party a financial benefit.
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We maintain a public list of people disqualified by a court or the Registrar. A disqualified person can’t be an officer of a corporation – that means they can’t be on the board or a manager.
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Update 26 March 2025: System outagesORIC’s online lodgement system – online.oric.gov.au – will be unavailable after 5…
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All corporations must keep correct and up to date accounts and records. Records help you to gather and maintain evidence about your business activities, like:
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Our workshops and courses are designed to build corporate governance knowledge, skills, efficiency and accountability. Goals for trainingOur courses aim to:
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This month we congratulate Coota Girls Aboriginal Corporation for its successful, sustained efforts to help the Stolen…
Sydney, New South Wales: Between 1912 and 1968 generations of young Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and forced to spend their childhood in Cootamundra Girls Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls.
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A brilliant new play by Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation holds a lesson for aspiring leaders of corporations…
Perth, Western Australia: Conceived, created and performed by members of Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company with respect for the community, elders and ancestors, the play Hecate powerfully meets the corporation’s objective as a cultural
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How can a corporation’s registered rule book best reflect Aboriginal cultural structures? Patta Aboriginal Corporation…
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory: Patta Warumungu people were the first Aboriginal group in Australia to negotiate a consent determination within a township.
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With a robust public laundry, Bagala Aboriginal corporation is improving hygiene and creating jobs—both especially…
Barunga, Northern Territory: A year ago, directors of Bagala Aboriginal Corporation launched a project to improve health and create jobs: a robust local public laundry. The Aboriginal community of Barunga is 80 kilometres south-east of Katherine.
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Conceived at a bush meeting of Kimberley elders over thirty years ago, Magabala Books (Aboriginal Corporation) abides…
Broome, Western Australia: In the mid 1980s, a bush meeting of Aboriginal elders from all over the Kimberley resolved to establish two new agencies: a regional centre for law and culture and an independent Aboriginal