Ian Yates is CEO of Cota Australia, the national peak body for Councils on the Ageing.
The United Nations-recognised international human rights peak body has condemned the government's attack on Triggs.
Government consultation with the sector's peak body before the reform package appears to have had little influence.
The Refugee Council of Australia is a peak body for about 200 organisations and more than 1,000 individual members.
The chief executive of the Tangentyere Council peak body, Walter Shaw, told Guardian Australia the original agreement was a "farce".
There are 30 organisational members of the NCSP, and not one is an Indigenous peak body or representative.
The peak body, Universities Australia, said maintaining the status quo was not a viable option, and called on senators to allow the deregulation of fees with amendments.
Each elects a president to sit on the executive of Tangentyere council, the town camps' Indigenous-owned and -run peak body.
The peak body for Indigenous legal services will shut its doors after being denied a portion of federal government funding under the Indigenous advancement strategy (IAS) grants scheme.
The union peak body warned the program is ripe for abuse, creating an incentive for business to churn through disadvantaged young jobseekers every 12 weeks.
Catriona Jackson, chief executive of Science and Technology Australia, the peak body for the science and technology industry, welcomed Finkel's plans for the future.
