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- Friends of the ABC - supports the independence of the publicly-owned national broadcaster
- Gun Control Australia
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- Australian Consumers Association (ACA) - publisher of "Choice" magazine
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- AESOP Business Volunteers (Canberra, Australia) - not-for-profit organisation, founded by the Australian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry and AusAID, which works with businesses and organisations in the Pacific and South East Asia and
with Indigenous businesses in Australia
- Anglican Board of Mission Australia (ABM) (Sydney) - supports development activities as an essential part of bringing
wholeness to people, helping communities with resources and skills necessary for them to become self sufficient
- Anglicare
- AusAID - Australian government's overseas aid program
- AustCare
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research - committed to developing countries through collaborative research
- Australian Council for Overseas Aid - human rights activities, advocacy work and current campaigns
- Australian Red Cross
- Australian Volunteers International
- Australian Youth Ambassadors - Australian Government's initiative to place young Australians on development assignments in
the Asia-Pacific region
- Baptist World Aid Australia (Frenchs Forest, NSW) - helps manage funds and goods for distribution amongst refugees, supports
SAO Child Sponsorship and community development projects in over twelve countries across Africa and Asia, and contributes
to relief in emergency situations around the world
- CARE Australia
- Caritas Australia
- Community Aid Abroad (CAA) - Oxfam Australia, works against poverty
- Hunger Project-Australia (Carlton, VIC) - committed to the sustainable end of world hunger, working to empower grassroots
people to make lasting, self-reliant progress in nutrition, health, education and family income
- Opportunity International Australia (Sydney) - specialist provider of collateral-free business loans, training and mentoring to
chronically poor adults empowering them to start or expand their own small businesses, with a worldwide repayment rate of
95-98% on both principal and interest
- Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Australia (Sydney) - recruits field volunteers, provides information and raises funds for the
international MSF movement
- Plan International Australia - national office of Plan International, responsible for raising funds nationally by attracting new
sponsors and other donors
- Help East Timor Appeal - a project of PLAN International Australia
- World Vision Australia
- Youth Challenge Australia - volunteer program with projects overseas
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- Australian Conservation Foundation
- Australian Forest Growers
- Australian Green Party
- Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) (Brisbane, Qld) - non-profit, non-government organisation that promotes the
study and conservation of all aquatic life, and the only national group devoted solely to protecting the marine environment
- Australian Trust for Conservation Volunteers (Green Corps) - environment initiative for young people
- Earthlink
- FloraBank
- Friends of the Earth
- Green Innovations, Inc. (Melbourne)
- Greenpeace Australia
- GreenNet Australia - 200 indigenous, community and environmental organisations
- Landcare Australia
- Native Fish Australia
- Planet Ark
- Banksia Foundation
- Threatened Species Network
- Smogbusters - a joint initiative of the Community Conservation Councils and the Federal Government through the Natural
Heritage Trust which works with the community to improve urban air quality by encouraging the use of more environmentally
friendly forms of transport such as walking, cycling, bus, train and tram use
- Sustainable Energy and Anti-Uranium Service (SEA-US Inc.)
- Uranium & Nuclear Power Information Centre (Melbourne)
- Wilderness Society
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- Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women (CAPOW) (Canberra) - network of national women's organisations
that promotes the status of women in Australia on a national basis and endorses the full implementation of the Convention for
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Australia
- Commonwealth Office of the Status of Women (OSW) - federal government body that provides policy advice to the Prime
Minister and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women on issues affecting women in Australia
- International Women's Development Agency - promotes the equitable growth of communities, giving priority to women who suffer
from poverty and oppression
- Maternity Coalition (MC) (Blackburn North, Vic) - national non-profit, non-political and non-sectarian consumer advocacy
organisation which acts as an umbrella organisation to bring together support groups and individuals for effective lobbying,
information sharing, networking and support in maternity services
- National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC) (Canberra) - coalition of organisations and individuals which aims to aims to
promote women's equality before the law by working at a national level and focusing on raising awareness of issues relating to
women's legal equality, coordinating and lobbying on women's justice issues, and building networks and facilitating the work of
individuals and groups
- Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) (Canberra) - national independent political organisation dedicated to creating a society where
women's participation and potential are unrestricted, acknowledged and respected and where women and men share equally in
society's responsibilities and rewards
- womensNEWS
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- Transparency InternationaI-Australia (Blackburn South, Vic) - the Australian national chapter of the global coalition with a
presence in over 80 countries, which is dedicated to increasing government accountability and curbing both international and
national corruption
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- Doctors Reform Society of Australia (DRS) (Sydney) - organization of doctors and medical students supporting health care
reforms to ensure justice, equity and quality care for all regardless of social or economic status
- Private Doctors Australia (PDA) (Penrith, NSW) - aims to advance and promote the public health and science of medicine and
the practise of medicine by private medical practitioners, to uphold the honour and dignity of the private medical practitioner, and
to preserve, maintain, promote and advance the status, the numbers and the intellectual, philosophical, social, political,
economic and legal interests of the Private Medical Practitioner
- Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) (Canberra) - serves as a national organization and national voice for rural doctors,
to concentrate on national issues
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- A Just Australia (Surry Hills, NSW) - aims to achieve just and compassionate treatment of refugees, consistent with the human
rights standards which Australia has developed and endorsed
- Amnesty International Australia
- Australian Advocacy Institute - committed to the principle that a client's right to representation is a right to professionally
competent representation
- Australian Legal Information Institute (Sydney) - joint facility of University of Technology Sydney and University of New South
Wales Faculties of Law which allows access to legal databases in Australia and across the globe
- Constitutional Centenary Foundation
- ECPAT Australia - network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child
pornography and trafficking of children for sexual purposes
- Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.
- Federal Law Review (ANU)
- International Society for Human Rights - Australia
- Justice Action Australia
- Law Link
- Legal Bulletin Service
- Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) (Glebe, NSW) - peak organisation, funded by its members and by project grants from
government agencies, which assists refugees in countries of first asylum and when they repatriate to their homelands, provides
protection and legal advice to refugees and asylum seekers and settlement support to refugees in Australia, and advocates on
behalf of a particular refugee community
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- Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition (AABCC)
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research - committed to developing countries through collaborative research
- Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Centre for Independent Studies
- Friends of Suai - citzens of Melbourne and Suai, East Timor, are commited to a long term relationship based on mutual respect
- Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) (Carlton, Vic) - promotes the use of financial, technical and human
resources for advancing health and welfare, not for developing and acquiring armaments (affiliate of the International Physicians
for the Prevention of Nuclear War)
- United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) - provides the opportunity to be involved in the wide range of issues that confront
the United Nations and Australia, from human rights to peacekeeping, from greenhouse gases to clean water
- United Nations Youth Association of Australia (UNYA) - non-profit, community organisation run for and by young people, placing
school students at the centre of the intrigue and excitement of international affairs in mock sessions of United Nations bodies,
exposing them to world-class speakers on a myriad of topic, and providing social events that allow young people to develop their
skills both educationally and socially
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- Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) (Melbourne) - the peak union council and national centre representing around 1.8
million workers in the Australian workforce
- Australian Education Union (Canberra) - organisation with a membership of 155,000 educators who work in public schools,
colleges, early childhood and vocational settings in all states and territories of Australia, including teachers and allied
educational staff, principals and administrators, mainly in government school and TAFE systems
- Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) - members include production, trade, technical, administrative and
supervisory workers in the Metal and Engineering, Automotive, Printing, Food and Confectionery processing as well as
Technical, Supervisory and Administrative sectors of the various arms of manufacturing, engineering and science
- Fair Wear - addresses the exploitation of home workers in the clothing industry
- Federation of Education Unions Information Centre - provides a range of information services, including current journal titles,
monographs, general and legal reference tools, Australian and state government legislation, a selection of Industrial Relations
Commission and other court transcripts, news clippings and audiovisual materials, to the Australian Education Union,
Independent Education Union, and the National Tertiary Education Union
- LaborNet - The Australian Labor Movement
- Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) (Redfern, NSW) - union for journalists, artists, and photographers working in
newspapers and magazines, television and radio, the book industry, interactive media, and public affairs and public relations
- National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) (South Melbourne, Vic) - represents education staff working in universities, TAFE
colleges, research institutes, adult education providers, student organisations, university and college companies and
commercial arms, and independent post-secondary education providers
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- Australia-Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) - represents the interests of the Australian Jewish community to government,
media and other community groups and organisations
- Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) - national network supporting the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples in Australia and coordinating a major community awareness and education campaign on Native Title and
Reconciliation
- Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) - the peak national body which advocates for the rights and
entitlements of Australians from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, while promoting Australia as a truly inclusive,
multicultural society
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- Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Australia (Sydney) - aims to help donors make the most of their giving, and non profit
organisations make the most of their resources
- Jobs Australia Ltd (Melbourne) - national peak body representing and providing services to not-for-profit organisations around
Australia, from major charitable and welfare organisations to smaller independent community-based agencies, which assist
unemployed people to get and keep jobs
- Myer Foundation (Melbourne, Vic) - established and initially endowed by the Myer family and now supported by three
generations of Myer family members, and representing their continuing commitment to philanthropy
- Philanthropy Australia (Melbourne, Vic) - the national membership body which promotes and protects the interests of family,
private, corporate and community giving within Australia, distributing tens of millions of dollars annually to the community,
principally in the areas of education, the arts, welfare, health and medical research
- United Way Australia - series of local independent organisations, sometimes called Community Chest or Community Fund,
which work in close partnership with the corporate sector, governments, and non-profit organisations to pinpoint and address
critical community issues and to raise the funds necessary to do so (affiliated with United Way International)
- Volunteering Australia - domestic volunteering in Australia
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- Australian Democrats
- Australian Fabian Society (Melbourne) - Australia's oldest left political think tank
- Australian Green Party
- Australian Labor Party
- Australian Reconciliation Party
- Liberal Party of Australia
- Liberals Net
- National Party of Australia
- One Nation Party
- People Power Party
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) (Bankstown, NSW) - Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth
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- Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations (AFHO) (Dickson, ACT) - national homelessness peak organisation that
works to address and prevent homelessness in Australia by developing and analysing policy, consulting with and represents
services for homeless people, advocating for homeless people and providing information about homelessness
- Australian Idealist Organizations
- The Australia Institute
- Coalition for Gun Control
- Council on the Ageing (COTA) - independent consumer organisation that protects and promotes the well-being of all older
people
- Council for Homeless Persons Australia (CHPA) (Cannington, WA) - represents a national network of over 450 agencies working
with homeless adults, families and young people
- Cycling Promotion Fund, Australia (Hawthorn, Vic) - an initiative of Bicycle Industries Australia Ltd. to help the bicycle industry
take collective action to increase bicycle use by building strategic partnerships and funding and supporting campaigns which
promote bicycle use
- Institute of Public AffairS (IPA)
- National Youth Coalition for Housing (NYCH) (Canberra) - promotes housing opportunities for young homeless people in
Australia by providing coordination and resourcing to services for young homeless people nationally, monitoring government
policy and service developments relevant to youth housing and homelessness, undertaking policy development and research on
youth housing, homelessness and related issues, and lobbying government and the broader community to take the required
steps to provide young people with housing opportunities and to reduce youth homelessness in Australia
- New Australian
- Rail Trails Australia (East Melbourne, Vic) - national organisation which promotes the preservation of old rail corridors for
alternative public uses such as cycling, horse riding and bush walking
- Social Education And Research Concerning Humanity (SEARCH) Foundation (Sydney) - aims to promote greater understanding
in the community of the main factors affecting social life, influencing social development and advancing social well-being
- St James Ethics Centre (Sydney) - not-for-profit, independent organisation which provides a forum for the promotion and
exploration of ethics and seeks to encourage individuals and organisations to include the ethical dimension in their daily lives
- The Sydney Institute
- Whitlam Institute (University of Western Sydney) - pursues the causes championed by former Australian prime minister Gough
Whitlam, gives a voice and resources to the people of Western Sydney, and houses selected books and papers donated by Mr
Whitlam to create the Whitlam Prime Ministerial Collection
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