David Crosbie

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Audio Editor at The Globe and Mail

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Productivity matters!

3 days ago | communitydirectors.com.au | David Crosbie

We need to push back against the idea that we are less productive if we are healthier, better educated, better housed and cared for writes Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie. The push to address Australia’s ‘productivity problem’ has attracted universal support from across the political divide, conservative and progressive economists, and political commentators of all persuasions. What though does a productivity agenda mean for charities and community organisations?
Time to celebrate and acknowledge volunteering

2 weeks ago | communitydirectors.com.au | David Crosbie

Volunteers are the beating heart of Australia’s democracy, writes Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie. It’s National Volunteer Week and while we all agree volunteering is good for us, sometimes I think we take volunteering for granted. I want to highlight just one example of how volunteers contribute to making Australia such an exceptional country. We’ve just held a national election. For me, no day on the democracy calendar is more inspiring and uplifting than election day.
Institute of Community Directors Australia

1 month ago | communitydirectors.com.au | David Crosbie

The charities and not-for-profit sector could learn much from the failure of the Coalition to win government at Saturday’s federal election writes Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie. Politics can be brutal and unforgiving. And maybe that’s the way it should be when we’re talking about the capacity to shape our nation. Our leaders need to be tested if we’re to have confidence in them.
What Boards Must Know About Stablecoins

1 month ago | directorsandboards.com | David Crosbie |Susan Holliday

Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value by pegging their price to a reference asset — a fiat currency, like the U.S. dollar or euro. Under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), they are known as Electronic Money Tokens (EMTs) to differentiate them from tokens backed by assets such as gold.
What kind of Australia do you want to live in?

1 month ago | communitydirectors.com.au | David Crosbie

Rather than falling for superficial narratives that highlight “what’s in it for me”, we can and should be focused on the kind of Australia we want to live in, writes Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie.
Political power outage

1 month ago | communitydirectors.com.au | David Crosbie

A new survey has confirmed charities enjoy strong support in communities across Australia. So why doesn’t the sector have more political clout, asks Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie. Community Council for Australia is about to release the results of one of the biggest surveys we’ve ever conducted about charities in Australia.
Are Digital Tokens the Next SPACs?

2 months ago | directorsandboards.com | David Crosbie |Susan Holliday

Special purpose acquisition companies, perhaps better known as SPACs, were first introduced in the 1990s as a faster, cheaper and more structured way for small and medium-sized companies to be traded on the public markets. Following a great deal of hype, and a miniature boom around 2020-2021, SPACs are now a rare breed, since some companies failed to find an acquisition target and many that listed had poor post-IPO performance.
Institute of Community Directors Australia

2 months ago | communitydirectors.com.au | David Crosbie

When it comes to youth crime panic, we've heard it all before says Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie, as he argues "our responses to youth crime should be grounded in fact, not anecdote-fuelled misinformation". On Thursday, April 2, 1925, Alex McKinley, then head of the Melbourne Children’s Court, had a letter to the editor published in the Arguscalling for young people up to the age of 20 to be offered rehabilitation rather than prison.
Institute of Community Directors Australia

Mar 4, 2025 | communitydirectors.com.au | David Crosbie

When it comes to building safe, resilient and caring communities, greed is far from good, says Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie. I’m not sure when profit became a God, prosperity a measure of personal merit, and greed a virtue. We may have been heading that way for a while, but in recent times it seems this has become a dominant ideology. When all that matters is the deal, the well-being of humanity becomes irrelevant.
What Boards Need to Know About Crypto

Mar 3, 2025 | directorsandboards.com | David Crosbie |Susan Holliday

Up until now, the only mention of crypto currency in the boardroom was probably a discussion on whether the company needed to own Bitcoin in case of a ransomware attack. However, the landscape is changing very rapidly, driven by a crypto-friendly U.S. President and the resulting rapid rise in the price of Bitcoin over the emotionally significant threshold of $100,000.