The Government on Wed 19.9.2012, announced that it would introduce legislation to ban gag clauses in Commonwealth contracts with the Not-For-Profit sector. The Assistant Treasurer said the legislation would build on the Government’s reforms to the NFP sector, including the new charities commission, by ensuring gag clauses are not used in any Commonwealth funding agreements. He said the NFP sector is made up of around 600,000 organisations and accounts for approximately 8% of employment nationally. [Amendments have been made to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012 to give effect to this announcement – see ‘Legislation’ article above.]
Source: Joint media release by Assistant Treasurer and other Ministers, 19 September 2012
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