Ewen Jones (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It has to be freed up. We have the member for Kooyong sitting right in front of me. He is working so hard to make sure that we get these things through and get rid of this red tape so that we can free people up to actually do what they want to do. No-one got into charity work, not-for-profit work, NGO work, supplying services to kids on the street or in small business because they love red tape and want to fill out forms. 'I want to help some kids on the street by filling out a 47-page document! That's how I can best serve!'

You find that the people who are up against this are the people who are getting paid to help them comply. The people who want the ACNC and more red tape in this field are the people who are being paid or whose job description is them helping people work out how this form complies, where this form goes, how to do it properly and all that sort of stuff. This is what we have to stop. What we have to do is make sure the money that these people raise gets to the customer, to the person on the ground. Filling out red tape is taking another person away from what they want to do, be it the P&F at your school, the Queensland youth services, an aged-care facility or anywhere. If your audit process is good enough for the state government, it should be good enough for us. We can just push it through and make it easier for people to provide services on the street. (Time expired)

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