{"id":849806,"date":"2026-08-10T03:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849806\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T03:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:20:12","slug":"australia-news-live-taylor-demands-pm-apologise-to-japanese-leader-for-podcast-remarks-labor-convinced-ndis-cuts-the-right-call-despite-human-rights-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849806\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Taylor demands PM apologise to Japanese leader for podcast remarks; Labor \u2018convinced\u2019 NDIS cuts the right call despite human rights concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mandatory social media review of non-profit organisations registered by a federal commission could present a \u201csignificant extra burden\u201d for the regulator, its boss has warned, after the proposal was put to her at the antisemitism royal commission.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) commissioner Susan Woodward warned that the regular monitoring of social media accounts linked to the 66,000 non-profits certified by the commission could impose an \u201cunnecessary burden\u201d, despite acknowledging its virtues as a \u201cfree and possibly simple thing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial media works very fast, as I\u2019m sure you appreciate,\u201d Woodward told the commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you also combine that with consistently over the last 14 years, we\u2019ve seen that about half of all registered charities are entirely volunteers, and you put that sort of extra layer on, it can be considered quite a significant extra burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was put to Woodward by Nicholas Bender, SC, who is acting as counsel for a coalition of Jewish communal bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Woodward told the hearing there was a 17 per cent rise in the number of registered charities under the regulator in the 10 years after June 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mandatory social media review of non-profit organisations registered by a federal commission could present a \u201csignificant extra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-849806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}