Funding
About 90% of ACF's funding is received from its members and supporters, with the small remainder derived from government grants and from selected companies.
On 11th June 2012 Tim Wilson wrote in The Australian:
NGOs are within their rights to lobby for the government to increase government aid spending. But that right is diminished when they are also recipients.
Similarly, the Australian Conservation Foundation receives taxpayer aid funding to run programs to promote grassroots engagement on climate change-based policy.
As a recipient of aid funding the ACF was also involved in the Say Yes! Coalition with Greenpeace and GetUp! to provide political support for the Gillard government's introduction of the carbon tax.
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Before either side of politics increases the aid budget further, a proper audit needs to be completed so the public can be confident aid funding isn't being used for political activity.
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The ACF has yet to deny this potentially damaging allegation.
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