The Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals is the peak body representing co-ops and mutuals in Australia. A strong economy is everyone’s business.

Australia
Joined June 2013
Last week @ALeighMP spoke at our CEO Roundtable on how co-operatives can boost competition and community.
My grandfather helped found a co-op in the Depression, mostly selling women’s clothing. Today I gave a speech on how co-operatives can boost competition and community. One for the policy nerds and the hosiery historians. andrewleigh.com/speech_mutua… #auspol @bccm_au
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BCCM welcomes the new Albanese Ministry and Dr Daniel Mulino to the Treasury team. We thank @JEChalmers & @ALeighMP for backing co-op & mutual reforms. Time to put member-owned businesses at the heart of policy for fairer markets. #auspol #coops #mutuals bccm.coop
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👏 Thank you NSW Treasurer the Hon Daniel Mookhey, MLC @dmookheyMLC for recognising co-ops & mutuals in Parliament – from the NRMA to HCF, and the rise of new co-ops in brewing, music & more. A timely message in the @UN #InternationalYearofCooperatives #NSW #coops #mutuals
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Listen to Karen Hodgson, Steering Committee Lead of the Murrumbidgee Aged Care Network, a @caretogetherau project, spoke with ABC Riverina’s Eddie Williams about the challenges small aged care providers face – and how they’re tackling them together. (2:11:53) #coops #agedcare
Karen Hodgson, Steering Committee Lead of the Murrumbidgee Aged Care Network, a Care Together project, spoke with ABC Riverina’s Eddie Williams about the challenges small aged care providers face – and how they’re tackling them together. (2:11:53) abc.net.au/listen/programs/r…
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Don't miss our CEO @melina_bccm on Sky Regional News at 6:45am Thurs as she talks about the importance of new business models like #coops and #mutuals for people living in regional and remote places struggling to get adequate care services delivered. @caretogetherau
Watch Sky Regional News at 6:45am Thurs where @melina_bccm @BCCM_AU talks about the importance of new business models like #coops and #mutuals for people living in regional and remote places struggling to get adequate care services delivered. caretogether.coop
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Our Digital Communications Consultant, Kristin Sinclair, recently shared the BCCM's strategies for enhancing co-operative visibility at the @ICAAPAC's Knowledge Sharing and Training Program.
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BCCM's Anthony Taylor enjoyed meeting with young co-operators from 25 countries as part of the Coopathon, a co-op hackathon at #ICANewDelhi2024. #NamasteICA #CoopsBuildABetterWorld
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BCCM CEO @melina_bccm shared the progress on the @caretogetherau and the development of a co-op social care sector in Australia while participating in a panel discussion on co-ops in the care economy at the @icacoop conference in New Delhi today. #CareTogether #ICANewDelhi2024
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"When you are at the global launch of the International Year of Cooperatives in Delhi at the @icacoop General Assembly and you run into friend and cooperative champion Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji Manoa Kamikamica." - @melina_bccm #IYC2025 #NamasteICA #CoopsBuildABetterWorld
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"Australia’s regulatory framework is under pressure to better accommodate Discretionary Risk Mutuals as an alternative risk management tool for sectors facing insurance affordability challenges." insurancebusinessmag.com/au/…
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A report released in Canberra today highlights the important role Discretionary Risk Mutuals are playing in providing alternative risk management to businesses and organisations in markets where premiums have become unaffordable. bccm.coop/key-role-for-discr… #DiscretionaryRiskMutuals
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her first Mansion House speech last Thursday. It contained a massive announcement for #coops and #mutuals in Britain. gov.uk/government/speeches/m…
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BCCM CEO @melina_bccm is speaking at the Global Cooperative Conference 2024 in New Delhi by the @icacoop! Melina is excited to share insights and meet fellow cooperators. Are you going? Let’s say “Namaste”! 🙏 Sign up: icanewdelhi2024.coop #NamasteICA #IYC2025
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Tnx to lead researcher/author @SidselGrimstad Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation: “What Australia can learn from European affordable co-operative rental housing models: A report on findings from the BCCM 2024 European Co-op Housing study tour”. bccm.coop/wp-content/uploads…
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Our thanks also to Common Equity Housing Limited (CEHL) for producing the report.
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Report highlights the untapped potential of #cooperativehousing. #Coops are 20% of all housing stock in Copenhagen vs 0.05% in Australia. Improved funding could lift co-ops’ share to 10% of all community housing. Government should reinstate mandated funding for #coophousing.
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Thanks to Basil Lenzo, Marc Anderson, and the Geraldton Fishermen's Co-operative team for last week's site tour of your impressive facilities. Fantastic for our #coop and #mutual leaders to see firsthand how you create value for your members through the supply chain. #BCCMSummit
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