Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are an important arm of civil society in liberal democracies. “Service Delivery” NGOs are some of the most recognisable brands in the world. In Australia especially, NGOs like the Country Fire Authority, State Emergency Service and the Country Women’s Association are some of our most venerable and trusted institutions.
But NGOs have become almost synonymous with political lobbying – especially of the far left variety. Unfortunately, many of these lobbyists are unscrupulous leftist bullies who blacken the collective reputation of the entire NGO sector.
Especially when they abuse charitable status.
Animal activist group Vegan Rising has been stripped of its official charity status. The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission revoked the group’s registered charity status today, following an investigation. Vegan Rising had been granted charity status with the same purpose of controversial animal activist group Aussie Farms — “the purpose of preventing or relieving the suffering of animals”.
Aussie Farms, the creeps behind the alarming series of mass-raids on family farms, have already had their charity status pulled – yet still claim to be a charity.
Aussie Farms had its charity status revoked last month, but The Weekly Times recently revealed it was still calling itself a charity and the national regulator had no power to stop it.
So, do Vegan Rising actually do anything to help actual animals?
Vegan Rising seeks donations through its website for “powerful campaigns for animals” and states it has “one objective […] to help create a vegan world” […]Vegan Rising members took part in a national day of animal activist action in April where they brought one of Melbourne’s busiest intersections to a stand still […]
According to ACNC documents, Vegan Rising received more than $12,000 in donations and bequests in the 2017-18 financial year. It spent less than $4000 in the same period.
weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/vegan-rising-charity-status-revoked-by-acnc/
That would be a big, fat, “NO”, then.
Other shifty, bullying green-left NGOs are also coming under the microscope. GetUp notoriously subjected a female MP to an unprecedented campaign of harassment and stalking at the last election. Its campaign against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg developed a nasty whiff of the sort of anti-Semitism now infesting the British left. Now, it’s trying to fill its coffers from off the backs of Australia’s revered firies.
GetUp is using the bushfires raging along Australia’s east coast in a new drive for public support, asking people to sign a petition berating Scott Morrison’s government for not doing enough to resource emergency services. A GetUp email seeking support links the current bushfire season to climate change and includes a request for donations to help fund the group’s work […]
Liberal senator Eric Abetz branded the new campaign a “false” and “tawdry” attempt to link uncontested government and community support for firefighters to GetUp’s political agenda.
He said GetUp was trying to revive its standing after discredited efforts at the May federal election to target Coalition MPs such as Nicolle Flint, Josh Frydenberg and others with an anti-Coalition “hit-list” campaign.
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/getup-hijacks-firefighters-to-kindle-its-funds-drive/
Every time you think these dodgy NGOs have scraped as low as they possibly could, they go right ahead and prove that leftist venality is a bottomless pit.
