Chair
Sue Barker, Director, Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
The Not-for-Profit Landscape in Australia: A Guide to Charity Structures and Options
- Structuring not-for-profit organisations, charity types and philanthropic vehicles
- Starting and operating a not-for-profit: strategic choices, maintaining the right structure and keeping to purpose
Presented by Seak-King Huang, Partner, Milner + Huang; Member, Charities and Not-for-profits Committee, Law Council of Australia; Director, Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Sue Barker, Director, Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
Sue Barker is the director of Sue Barker Charities Law, a boutique law firm based in Wellington, specialising in charities law and public tax law. Since its founding in 2012, the firm has won several awards, including Boutique Law Firm of the Year at the New Zealand Law Awards. Sue is recognised by the International Charity Law Network as a Charity Law Scholar. Sue is also a director of the Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, and a co-author of the text The Law and Practice of Charities in New Zealand (LexisNexis, 2013). In 2019, Sue was awarded the New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellowship Te Karahipi Rangahau ā Taiao, to undertake research into the question “What does a world-leading framework of charities law look like?”. The final report from the Fellowship, entitled Focus on purpose, was released in April 2022 making 70 recommendations for charities law reform in Aotearoa New Zealand. More information about Sue and the research can be found at www.charitieslaw.co and www.charitieslawreform.nz.
Seak-King Huang, Partner, Milner + Huang
Seak-King has been a lawyer for over 30 years. She was a Partner in a major Australian firm, changing to focus on the not-for-profit sector exclusively from 2005. She was General Counsel and Company Secretary of World Vision Australia for over 10 years. Now in private practice with Alex Milner (Partner) and Emma Kostas (Senior Associate), she continues to focus exclusively on advising those engaged in the not-for-profit sector including a broad range of charitable organisations, as well as philanthropists and their organisations. Seak-King is actively engaged outside of her practice on the Board of Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand and as a member of the Law Council of Australia’s Charities and Not-for-profit Committee and advisory groups of the ACNC and the ATO.
