That move was “welcomed” by Dr Andrew Leigh, the new Assistance Charities Minister. On Friday last week it was announced Gary Johns, the Coalition-appointed, highly-controversial boss of charities regulator the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) had also “resigned”.
On Wednesday it was announced Hoffman had “resigned”. The NDIS has been criticised for major cost blow-outs and the ALP, when in opposition, raised serious concerns over Hoffman’s performance. NDIS CEO Martin Hoffman was appointed to the role by the Federal Coalition in November 2019.
The surge in taxpayer funding for its ongoing operations was underpinned by ballooning payments under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).ĭespite the charity’s poor performance, its NDIS payments surged from $1m in 2016-17 to $3.1m in 2019-20 and $2.8m last financial year. In the 2019, 20 financial years it received annual government funding of $3.6m, $4.1m and $3.9m respectively.
In the 2011, 20 financial years - Hayes’ first three years as CEO - Guide Dogs Victoria received total government funding of between $1m and $1.1m each year. Last financial year that figure had ballooned to $553,000 - which is more than half what the charity used to receive in total government funding every year. Investigations by The Klaxon show Hayes - whose remuneration is listed in the charity’s accounts under “Key Management Personnel” - was paid a salary of $298,678 in 2014-15. It is illegal for charities to promote politicians or political parties, in laws heavily advocated by Frydenberg and the former Federal Coalition Government. Karen Hayes “resigned” as Guide Dogs Victoria CEO on Tuesday last week, six weeks after it emerged she had appeared in political advertisements spruiking then Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg for re-election. In 2012 the charity reported there were “220,000 blind or vision impaired people” living in Victoria, with that figure “predicted to grow to 350,000 by 2020”. The slump in services provided by Guide Dogs Victoria is despite surging demand. (The cash went to bolstering its “cash at bank” to $18.75m, up from $16.65m a year earlier.) In addition, as previously revealed, in 20, Guide Dogs Victoria received $3.5m under Frydenberg’s JobKeeper program that it didn’t need. A $5m Victorian Government grant in 2018 A $2.5m Federal Coalition grant announced in 2020 and A major Federal Coalition grant paid just before the 2019 Federal Election (value undisclosed) $2m announced by the Federal Coalition the day before the 2013 Federal Election Those “redevelopment” grants started the day before the 2013 Federal Election, when the Federal Coalition promised $2m, kicking off a decade of taxpayer-funded largess. That taxpayer funding for its ongoing operations - which it terms “government funding for services” - is before including millions of dollars in “grants” for “redevelopments” at the charity’s headquarters in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Kew.
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