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Health and Wellbeing

ALCA submission to second Treasury consultation on Measuring What Matters

Nature is critical to our wellbeing, and adequately measuring and reporting on its condition is a key part of building roadmaps to protect and restore Australian nature. Policy action must reflect all significant pressures facing nature. Acting on climate change alone is not sufficient to avert Australia’s nature crisis, and ALCA strongly recommends that the wording in emerging policy themes and draft descriptions in Measuring What Matters should reflect all pressures, not just climate change.

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Economy, Investment and Finance

ALCA submission to the Productivity Commission’s Philanthropy Inquiry

Philanthropy has and continues to play a critical role in delivering outcomes for nature.

The urgency of responding to the nature crisis is not reflected in the current treatment of environmental charities; most significantly, environmental charities lack fringe benefit tax concessions currently afforded to Public Benevolent Institutions.

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Submission

ALCA submission on Australia’s science and research priorities

ALCA recommends that the Government adopt “Environmental and Community Resilience” as one of its national science and research priorities, with the aim of building Australia’s capacity – especially its community-level capacity – to respond to the interconnected crises of climate change and biodiversity decline.

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