Friday, November 03, 2006

More bang for your philanthropic buck | Features | The Australian

More bang for your philanthropic buck | Features | The Australian: "More bang for your philanthropic buck
Australians are demanding when it comes to giving, writes Elisabeth Wynhausen
November 04, 2006
WE Australians are a tight-fisted lot, right? Wrong, insists Prime Minister John Howard.

'I'll bore you with just two or three statistics,' he said recently. 'We now, as a nation, give about $11 billion a year in money, goods and services to nonprofit organisations,' Howard told guests at the Community Partnerships Awards dinner in Canberra the other week, denying that the prosperity Australia is experiencing has been accompanied by an overall rise in 'individual selfishness and indifference'."

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