Steps to lodge a general report online

• Contact details for the corporation
• Details of each person who was a director, contact person or secretary on 30 June
• A list of who the members were on 30 June
• The corporation’s income and expenses for the reporting year
• The corporation’s assets and liabilities as at 30 June
• How many employees the corporation had on 30 June
• Whether the corporation is endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office as a deductible gift recipient
• If your corporation also needs to lodge a financial report and/or directors’ report, you can lodge these with the general report.

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Go to online.oric.gov.au and log in with your username and password.

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If you have forgotten your username, call ORIC on 1800 622 431.

If you do not have an account, you can request one by clicking create an account and follow the instructions. Note: ORIC will only issue accounts to people in the role of director, secretary or who provide evidence of the board’s resolution authorising them to lodge reports on behalf of the corporation.

1. From the left side navigation, click Forms.
2. From the drop-down menu under ‘The following forms are available to you’, select General report.
3. Click Begin form.

In the drop-down menu, select the reporting year.

Click save then click next.

Your corporation's current details will already be filled out. Check these and make changes if necessary.

Click save then click next.

This screen is for reporting each person who was in a role on the last day of the financial year. For most corporations the last day is 30 June. If you want to notify changes that happened after this date, please lodge the changes in a separate form ‘Notification of a change to corporation directors, contact person or secretary’.

Under the heading Directors, make sure the name and details are correct for each person who was a director on the last day of the financial year.

Do the same for Contact person / secretary.

Click Next.

Provide a list of everyone who was a member on the last day of the financial year. For most corporations the last day is 30 June. (Get this information from your corporation's register of members).

You can:

• make changes directly in the screen, or
• download the list of members spreadsheet, make your changes and upload it.

Click Next.

Tell us what your corporation does

The list of industries may already be filled out with information from a previous report. Tick or untick boxes where required.

Enter financial information for the reporting year

If you don’t know what your reportable finances are:

1. click save at the bottom of the screen 
2. get the information
3. come back and continue the form.

Enter number of employees

If you are unsure of how to get this number, click on the question mark and follow the instructions.  

Tell us if the corporation is a deductible gift recipient

You might know this as ‘having DGR status’. If you are unsure, click the question mark and read carefully.

This may already be filled out from a previous report. Tick or untick the box.

Click Save then click Next.

This is for you to fill out so ORIC can contact you if we have questions about the report.

Click Save then click Next.

If your corporation is also required to lodge a financial report and/or a directors’ report you upload these files in the supporting documents screen. If you want to lodge these reports separately, you will need to email them to info@oric.gov.au.

Files must be no larger than 4MB.

Preferred format is PDF.

1. Choose your file.
2. Select the document type.
3. Enter a description.
4. Click Save.

After you have finished adding documents, click Next. 

The portal will tell you on this screen if there are parts of the form you’ve missed. You’ll need to fix these before you lodge the form.

Read the terms and conditions and then tick the I agree box.

Confirm the majority of your corporation’s members and directors are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander by ticking the box. 

Click Lodge this form now.

From the left side navigation, click Forms. There will be 2 lists on your screen:

1. Active online forms are forms that you or someone else from the corporation is working on and not yet lodged
2. Lodged online forms are forms that have been lodged.

When you lodge a form it moves from the top list to the bottom list.

ORIC will check your report is filled in and then add it to the Register of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations.