November
Australia’s top corporate givers revealed
Woolworths, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and health insurer NIB were among the companies to record a surge in philanthropy in 2023.
- Sally Patten
October
Murdoch-MacLeod museum gift sends lifeline to sinking island crafts
Former media executive Alasdair MacLeod said the initiative was already helping to revive traditional crafts of the region.
- Samantha Hutchinson
June
- Exclusive
- Philanthropy
The Forrests reset after trying to save the world proves too much
Australia’s richest man Andrew Forrest and wife Nicola will spend more on philanthropy, but narrow the focus of their $7.6 billion foundation.
- Brad Thompson
MPs (and a Voice dress) sparkle at the Midwinter Ball
The annual Canberra Press Gallery event raised $362,500 for charity organisations including the Butterfly Foundation and the Daniel Morcombe Foundation.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The Forrests have flipped from personal riches to philanthropy
The Forrests are setting an example for other wealthy Australians to follow and further deepening the contribution of business-led prosperity to tackling social challenges.
- The AFR View
April
NAB CEO says homelessness a national ‘disgrace’
The bank pledged $300,000 to the Salvation Army’s Red Shield Appeal to alleviate cost of living pressures on the most vulnerable, including from higher interest rates.
- James Eyers
‘The risk-takers’ leading Australia’s activist philanthropy revolution
Australia’s biggest donors don’t just want to soften the world’s hard edges – they’re challenging the status quo.
- Jemima Whyte
Australia’s 50 biggest givers top $1b in donations for the first time
Australia’s top philanthropists are in a hurry to spend their money – and sizeable, eye-catching donations are back in vogue.
- Lisa Murray
Why this former jackeroo’s farm project is bringing in big backers
Bernie Shakeshaft’s BackTrack program is making a difference – and critical to its success has been teaching at-risk kids how to train working dogs.
- Jemima Whyte
February
- Exclusive
- Philanthropy
This banker expects philanthropy will survive cost of living crisis
Gresham deputy chairman David Feetham is upbeat about the prospect for philanthropy in a year in which donors are predicted to tighten their belts.
- Samantha Hutchinson
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
The only thing new about Jim Chalmers’ economic model is the name
The treasurer has been busy explaining his new economic model. But one man’s “values-based capitalism” is another man’s corporate philanthropy model - just ask John Howard.
- Phillip Coorey
December 2022
Employees of micro businesses the most generous workplace givers
The Business Council and tech giant Atlassian have come together to work out ways to boost workplace charitable giving programs.
- Tom McIlroy
Australia’s top corporate givers revealed
Rio Tinto and South32 were among the resources companies that shelled out some of their bumper profits to support community projects this year.
- Updated
- Sally Patten
November 2022
Nature disclosure standards coming next year for banks, companies
The Macdoch Foundation has joined the Australian government as a funder of Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, which has put banks on notice.
- James Eyers
October 2022
- Exclusive
- Big four
Big four may back $400m social impact investment bank
The prime minister has reconvened the social impact investing taskforce, which has engaged with major bank CEOs on a co-funding model for social services.
- James Eyers
May 2022
- Opinion
- Opinion
Talk of doing good rings hollow among global elite
Davos is a high-profile measure of the fact that despite all the talk over the past several decades about stakeholder capitalism and “doing well by doing good”, the state of the world isn’t improving.
- Updated
- Rana Foroohar
Mike Baird to chair Future Generation Australia
The former premier has warned that ESG runs the risk of making responding to community need “head” rather than “heart-based”.
- Jemima Whyte
April 2022
Melbourne University believed and received $1b
Tens of thousands of smaller donors and 125 big ones helped the University of Melbourne reach its $1 billion philanthropy target.
- Julie Hare
January 2022
Why you should have a philanthropy portfolio
Thinking of giving in the way you might think of an investment portfolio can help maximise the good you do.
- Farhad Manjoo
December 2021
Thankyou Group donates more than Suncorp, Brambles, QBE and Mirvac
The social enterprise donated $10 million to help alleviate extreme poverty last year, propelling it into the list of Australia’s top 50 corporate philanthropists for the first time.
- Sally Patten
