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Trouble in the Land of Giving

Australian Charities, Fraud and the State
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The charities sector in Australia is big. There are over 600,000 not-for-profit organisations which together in 2015-16 generated more than $150 billion in income—fifty per cent more than the agricultural sector. De Maria’s book is the first to chart the history of the sector and the way in which it has been transformed from a government-led system for providing support to people experiencing need across the society to a neoliberal business operation, the underlying goal of which is the privatisation of welfare. The book also includes a valuable review of the role of the national charity regulator, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission. De Maria argues that, rather than providing the solution, the regulator itself has now become part of the problem. His provocative challenge for a review and renewal of the sector and the way in which it is regulated will inevitably generate intense debate.

William De Maria had a long and controversial career at Dept. of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of QLD and has a long history of social activism. He is the author of Deadly Disclosures: Whistleblowing and the Ethical Meltdown of Australia (Wakefield 1999) and is represented in Radicals in Australian Social Work edited by Carolyn Noble, Bob Pease and Jim Ife (Connor Court 2018).

Trouble in the Land of Giving is a welcome addition to and comment on the complex landscape of giving and receiving in Australia in the 21st century;One thing you did not know before reading Trouble in the Land of Giving is that 81% of charities (46,716) claim ‘combatting homelessness’ as one of their core missions. Yet homelessness is only increasing. Are charities causing homelessness?; with sometimes black humour the author includes a number of riveting case studies to make his argument about how widespread is stealing from charities.


Publicity undertaken for Trouble in the Land of Giving:
Book launched at Readings, Hawthorn, Melbourne by Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute and Helen Szoke former CEO …
Book extract published as Editorial for Third Sector online newsletter
Reviewed by Stephen Duckett for Grattan Institute online newsletter
Reviewed for The Whistle, Whistleblowers’ Association newsletter: http://www.whistleblowers.org.au/newsletter.html
Entered in 2020 QLD and Victorian Literary Awards.
Author interviewed on Radio Northern Beaches by Michael Lester
Author article for Michael West Media Independent Journalists: ‘Charity Rorts: how private schools and big business rob from the poor to give to the rich’
Press Release sent to many key parties in social work/ngo sector and to:
Melissa Cunningham SMH
Ross Gittins SMH
Michael Bachelard The Age.
Katherine Murphy Guardian
Michelle Grattan University of Canberra and Canberra Times.
Guy Rundle – Crikey.com

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