The organisations, which range from a school P&C to an animal rescue group, have been dubbed “double defaulters” by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) after failing to submit annual reports on two consecutive occasions.  

Five Illawarra groups – the Albion Park Public School P&C Association, Islamic Society of Illawarra, Aunties and Uncles (Illawarra) Inc, Headway Illawarra Inc, and the St John the Baptist Wollongong Library Fund – had their ACNC registrations revoked.

Elsewhere, 4 Paws Rescue NSW Incorporated at Nowra, the Southern Highlands Division of General Practice Inc and the Batemans Bay-based South Eastern Aboriginal Regional Management Service Cooperative Limited were also on the revocation list. 

The revocations have been published on the ACNC’s charity register list, which provides information about Australia’s 54,000 charities, and means the groups can no longer display the commission’s registered charity tick.

The Australasian College of Toxicology and Risk Assessment Inc, listed by the ACNC as being from the 2577 postcode (Moss Vale area), also lost its charity status.

ACNC Commissioner Susan Pascoe said more than 1300 registered charities were warned in February that failure to submit their outstanding annual information statements would see them lose their charitable status.

Charities were required to submit their outstanding reports by March 27. Five hundred and ninety of the charities failed to do so. 

Ms Pascoe said the national charity regulator needed to provide up-to-date information on its register and the statements allowed charities to meet the requirements to retain their charitable status.  

“The organisations that have lost their charity status were warned multiple times to submit their outstanding reports,” she said.

Revocation for failing to report was “always a last resort for the ACNC”, Ms Pascoe said.