Andrew Phelan
Andrew Phelan AM FIML is a retired senior Australian public servant. He was Chief Executive and Principal Registrar of the High Court of Australia from 2007 to 2018. He writes on governance, public institutions and church reform, and is a parishioner of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
Andrew's articles (2 total)
Subsidised but unaccountable: the religious charity gap
The Government must address a gap in the charity framework, namely the exemption for religious charities having to be transparent about the benefits they receive.
National Plenary Council Discernment Reports.
The purpose of the Discernment reports is, seemingly, to inform the development of an agenda for the formal sessions of the Plenary Council of the Australian Catholic Church. The documents are important in determining the success or otherwise of the PC. However, the six papers fail to bring together a coherent picture of the real issues confronting the Australian church and provide little confidence that an incisive and meaningful agenda will emerge.