(July 2014) Neumann & Turnour Lawyers are pleased to announce that Steve Potts has been appointed as Managing Director from 1 July 2014. Steve joined Neumann and Turnour in 2003 while completing the final year of his university studies. Upon graduation he undertook 2 years articled clerkship to Shayne Neumann before being admitted as a […]
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Dr Matthew Turnour & Mark Fowler (16 June 2014) On Friday the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia handed down its long awaited decision in the matter of Commissioner of Taxation v Hunger Project Australia [2014]. The case concerns the operations of Public Benevolent Institutions (PBIs), and in particular whether PBIs are required
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Rachel Sloper (June 2014) The Minister for Social Services, Kevin Andrews, has today announced that he has commissioned the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) to conduct research into a possible structure and set of functions for the Federal Government’s proposed Civil Society National Centre for Excellence. The project has already started, and will take place
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When people separate, one party is often subject to economic abuse by their former partner. In Queensland, if two people are in a relevant relationship, ‘domestic violence’ includes economic abuse. The Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (Qld) defines economic abuse as behaviour that is coercive, deceptive or unreasonably controls another without their consent
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