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In this workshop, learn how to ensure your corporation’s meetings are well run, productive and legally compliant.
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Go through tasks to complete for your corporation by the end of the year, such as annual reports, funding acquittals, taxes and annual general meetings.
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Even if your corporation has stopped doing anything, it's still registered as a legal entity. This means that you must still meet the legal obligations of a corporation. To be free of these obligations, you will need to finish up any corporation business (wind up) and deregister it.
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A voluntary deregistration is where all members agree to it. In a voluntary deregistration the directors have already completed the work of winding up the affairs of the corporation.
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Corporations must keep a record of directors and notify ORIC of any changes to these records within 28 days of finding out.
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In this workshop, learn what the law requires you to do when a conflict or complaint arises.
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Corporations can ask for exemptions from requirements about meetings. This includes general meetings, directors’ meetings, minutes of meetings.
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A corporation must be registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) to be a charity. A corporation that is, or wants to become, a charity must include certain rules in its rule book.
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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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Port Macquarie, New South Wales: In June 2016 Werin Aboriginal Corporation medical centre celebrated 10 years serving the Port Macquarie–Hastings area as well as independence from its auspice arrangement.
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Western Australia: Few organisations match the sweeping breadth and diversity of Ngaanyatjarra Council (Aboriginal Corporation). In fact, you might say it is unique.
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From 1 February 2022, Djarindjin Aboriginal Corporation runs the only independent, Aboriginal-owned airport in…
Djarindjin, Western Australia: Another helicopter lands at Djarindjin Airport and 19 passengers head for the air-conditioned terminal nearby.
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In 2015, South West Aboriginal Land & Sea Council Aboriginal Corporation negotiated an agreement between the…
Noongar country, Western Australia: You probably heard about the momentous High Court decision of 26 November 2020, which triggered the largest native title settlement in Australian history, affecting 200,000 square kilometres of the south west of Western Australia and tens of th
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Ten years after securing native title, Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC has won recognition of…
Gippsland, Victoria: In late November 2020, the Victorian government returned 2 billion litres of water to traditional owners whose native title rights and interests are managed by Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (GLaWAC).
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Budj Bim Cultural Landscape's listing as world heritage marked a new era for Gunditj Mirring Traditional…
Heywood, south-west Victoria: Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is an ancient and still-functional aquaculture system for catching, storing and harvesting short-finned eels and other fish.
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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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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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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.