The CEF-A Mystery

Submitted by subed on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 09:30
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By Dr Glenn Davies| 30 March 2008

The Governor-General is the Patron-in-Chief of the Constitutional Education Fund Australia (CEF-A), which financially supports an annual Governor-General's prize for undergraduate students.

In June 2003 the Australian Government granted rare gift recipient tax deductibility status to CEF-A. From the beginning CEF-A shared its Executive Director, Kerry Jones, with Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM), and was run from the ACM's Sydney office. The ACM regularly appealed to its members to contribute to CEF-A. Despite the inclusion of several republican academics on its advisory board, the Australian Republican Movement and its members were never approached to be involved in CEF-A programs or activities.

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