Harmonisation of cooperative legislation can be significant boost for co-ops, says BCCM

27 February 2020

Last year the Australian Federal Parliament passed landmark legislation for mutuals. These are the first amendments to the Corporations Act for 18 years that relate to the cooperative and mutual sector.

Santosh Kumar talked to Anthony Taylor, Policy Officer at the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM), a Member of the ICA, which was at the forefront of conceiving the amendments and proposing them at the appropriate forums, to find out a little more about the landmark development in the cooperative and mutual legal landscape concerning in the country.

Read the full interview,  Harmonisation of cooperative legislation can be significant boost for coops, says BCCMICA News, 26 February 2020.

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