A scorecard assessing the effectiveness of government commitments to the charity sector. It captures insights into the sector’s confidence, government policy successes and areas requiring improvement. It reveals significant failures, providing an adverse assessment on the federal government’s failure to ease the burden on organisations that are delivering urgent cost of living help.

The Community Council for Australia has been framing new policy platforms for the future of the Australian charities and not-for-profit sector over a period of years. The findings in this report describe progress against key indicators developed to reflect the core values of the Australia they want to see.

The Australia We Want is the first ever benchmark of how Australia and each State and Territory is performing against values and goals prioritised by leaders from across the charities sector. These values include: just, fair, safe, inclusive, equality of opportunity, united, authentic, creative, confident, courageous, optimistic, generous, kind, and compassionate. Drawing on key statistics...