https://www.acnc.gov.au/for-public/understanding-charities/are-there-too-many-charities-australia
The around 60,000 charities include:
- Religious organisations
- Parents and citizens committees or associations
- Universities and research organisations
- Non-government schools
- Animal welfare organisations
- International aid agencies
- Family violence support organisations
- Aged care centres and child care groups
- Cultural institutions such as museums and galleries
- Environmental protection groups
- Legal aid centres
In the 2019 Annual Information Statement, charities reported:
- Revenue was $166 billion. [Australian GDP was almost $2 trillion.]
- Donations $11.8 billion.
- Government funding $78.1 billion.
- Charities employed 1.38 million people (11% of total Australian employees). [In June 2020, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that Australia had 12.3 million people in employment.]
- Volunteer numbers 3.6 million.
- Charities spent $85.9 billion on employee expenses.
- The most common activities for charities were religious activities and primary and secondary education.
[Australian Charities Report 7th Edition: https://www.acnc.gov.au/tools/reports/australian-charities-report-7th-edition]
Thus, it is one of Australia’s biggest industries and an incredibly significant and important part of Australia’s Human-Organisation.
Regarding the 5 ‘universal, unconditional and guaranteed’ ‘Citizen Coopetition-Contributive Self-Actualisation Maximising Infrastructure’ (Citizen-CoCoSAMI) cornerstones of:
- Universal Rule of Coopetition-maximising Law
- Universal Liberal Democracy
- Universal Education
- Universal Healthcare
- Universal Subsistence Income (USI), which is Subsistence-Income-Servitude (SIS) abolitionist
charities also play a significant role.
However, as bottom-up organisations, regarding these 5 cornerstones, charities should only be a ‘top-up’ yet, particularly regarding The USI-absence, they are being burdened (and failing) with too much of the load.
Nevertheless, in large part, this is the fault of their policy activism component because, overwhelmingly, even though they know they are failing their Disempowered constituentsd (failing even to stabilise the decline), as yet, they are not advocating for The USI.
[Updated July 31, 2022]