We have set these out in further detail below. You can also find further information in our guide to working with other organisations. Amalgamation is a process which can be used by two or more incorporated associations based in the same state or territory to combine together to create a single incorporated association. The benefit of an amalgamation process is that certain steps usually involved in a merger happen automatically, which makes the process of joining the organisations together easier and less expensive.
The amalgamation process is available to incorporated associations in all jurisdictions in Australia except for the Northern Territory, where a statutory transfer process can be used instead. When individual incorporated associations amalgamate, they form a new incorporated association, and the relevant state regulator will cancel the incorporation of the individual associations without needing to wind them up in accordance with the Corporations Act Cth.
Mergers can be complex. It is therefore important that organisations seek independent legal advice before they decide to merge and to assist them through the merger process. Due diligence gives organisations the opportunity to make an informed decision about whether an amalgamation or merger is in their best interests.
It involves each organisation investigating one another by requesting certain information from one another including corporate, financial, contractual and insurance documents, to name a few , then reviewing and analysing that information, often with the assistance of professionals such as lawyers and accountants. First, if your organisation is a charity, the best place to look is on the ACNC register.
If your organisation is not a charity, you should start with the Australian Business Register search. If your group is a Company Limited by Guarantee a federal not-for-profit structure this will be indicated in the entry as Australian Public Company.
If your group is a state-based not-for-profit structure such as an incorporated association or a co-operative, it is likely that the ABR will list it as 'Other Incorporated Entity'.
You will then need to search your state or territory regulator of not-for-profits to confirm your structure. The information sheet below summarises the amalgamation process under the Associations Incorporation Reform Act Vic. The fact sheet below summarises the amalgamation process under the Associations Incorporation Act Qld.
Visit the Queensland Fair Trading website for relevant forms, fees and further information about amalgamation. The fact sheet below summarises the amalgamation process under the Associations Incorporation Act WA. Visit the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety website for relevant forms, fees and further information about amalgamation. The fact sheet below summarises the amalgamation process under the Associations Incorporation Act SA. Visit the Consumer and Business Services website for relevant forms, fees and further information about amalgamation.
Unlike other jurisdictions, there is no formal statutory amalgamation process available in the Northern Territory that allows two or more incorporated associations to join together to form a new association. Instead, there are different merger options available in the Northern Territory and each option should always be tailored to the specific organisations involved. Fisher, R. Statistical methods for research workers. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.
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Skip to main content. Search SpringerLink Search. Download PDF. Abstract Amalgamating evidence from heterogeneous sources and across levels of inquiry is becoming increasingly important in many pure and applied sciences. Introduction The amalgamation of evidence from different models, scales, and types of data continues to be central in diverse sciences such as biology, ecology, medicine, sociology, geography, climate science, and economics.
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Outlook Clearly this special issue illustrates that amalgamating evidence in the sciences touches on a variety of philosophical issues concerning confirmation, causation, induction, modeling, experiment, policy, and theory development. Notes 1. References Asmundson, G. Google Scholar Baetu, T. Google Scholar Bovens, L. Article Google Scholar Bovens, L.
To what homogeneous culture? In the summer of , the writer spent four weeks at a voluntary work camp, containing Americans and European refugees of both sexes, aged They were mostly students of upper middle class background. Several interesting situations developed.
Several of the decisions made by the councilor by the group as a whole, such as the establishment of a curfew, were disregarded by natives and refugees alike. Participation in discussion of these decisions and the problems they raised was extremely active. The most discussed problem was that of setting-up exercises. The group as a whole is not harmed by the absence of individuals from this activity, and consequently participation should be optional.
The material benefits accruing to each individual are inconsequential and irrelevant; the fact that the group starts the day all together is most important.
Therefore, the activity should be compulsory. The issue was finally compromised in favor of optional exercises, since both parties agreed that it was useless to legislate a feeling of community into existence if it could not arise spontaneously. In regard to our problem, it is significant that membership in these two opposing groups was about evenly divided among natives and refugees. Offhand it may be assumed that most of the Americans would belong to the utilitarian-anarchistic school, and most of the Europeans to the communal-compulsive.
Actually, there was no such cleavage. Some of the Americans had been influenced by the work camp philosophy, which originated in Europe and consequently stressed the importance of communal action. What is important here, however, is not the motivation but the manner in which it was rationalized. It may be argued that the opposition of certain refugees to compulsion was a direct reaction to their European experience, an example of irradiation.
Allport and associates come to similar conclusions in their study of refugees, based on interviews and analysis of autobiographies. In the definitions of assimilation which we have analyzed, there has been no mention of the basic personality structure as a factor in assimilation.
It is a long step from the employment of such a concept in cultural studies to the equation of the basic personality structure of any society with the personal character of individuals who compose that society.
An attempt has been made in this paper to point out the absence of an objective concept of assimilation, to provisionally establish assimilation as the process of becoming a member of a community, and to analyze that process.
But the writer is of the opinion that it is preferable to evolve a concept from the analysis of a process in operation to creating a concept which is based on judgments of how a process is to take place.
If objectivity is essential for intelligent social action, the sociologist must surely be concerned with the ways in which human beings act, regardless of whether their actions can be classified under this or that heading.
Taken from Social Forces , 21 October, , Reproduced with permission of the author and publisher. All Rights Reserved. Skip to content Increase Font Size. Burgess, "Accommodation," ibid.
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