Compacts 'do not always lead to harmony'

By Ben Cook, Third Sector Online, 28 August 2008

Compacts cannot be relied upon to ensure an effective relationship between government and the voluntary sector, according to a new report.

The study - Agreeing to Disagree: Maintaining Dissent in the NGO Sector , by think tank the Australia Institute - also concluded that compacts do not "guarantee the legitimacy" of the community sector. Gemma Edgar, a research fellow at the institute and author of the report, researched existing compacts, including...

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