This is a public inquiry and the Committee welcomes submissions from all interested organisations and individuals.

If you intend to provide a submission to the Inquiry, please read the Issues Paper which has been released by the Committee and note the issues and questions that have been raised in it. However, the matters raised in the Issues Paper are not exhaustive, and you are invited to comment on any other matter you consider relevant to the terms of reference.

Please include a succinct 1-2 page executive summary in your submission.

In order for the Committee to meet its reporting deadline, your submission will need to be received by no later than 31 December 2000.

Written submissions should be sent to :

Inquiry into the Definition of
Charities and Related Organisations
C/- The Treasury
Parkes Place
PARKES ACT 2600

or by email to submissions@cdi.gov.au

The Inquiry is intending to make submissions publicly available except for commercial-in-confidence or other confidential material provided as part of a submission. Please clearly mark any confidential material or indicate clearly if you do not wish your submission to be made public.

It would be helpful if you could send us a written version together with an electronic version on a diskette or as an attachment to an email message. We use Microsoft Word 97 but can deal with a number of formats. As a precaution, we would appreciate your undertaking the appropriate virus scanning of both electronic versions or diskettes before you send them.