Today
Cost of living crunch adds urgency to Christmas charity appeals
Charities are reporting a dip in the number of donations amid a heightened need for support.
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- Gus McCubbing
This Month
Paul Little and Jane Hansen open State Library’s Indigenous Gallery
The philanthropic couple have given $1.25 million to establish the library’s new showcase for Indigenous art.
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- Myriam Robin
Private schools could lose building fund tax perks
Donations for school sporting facilities, auditoriums and libraries primarily benefit Rich List donors directly.
- Tom McIlroy
Labor to consider new tax rules for donations
Recommendations from a major Productivity Commission report into philanthropy in Australia have left some in the charity sector asking for more government direction.
- Tom McIlroy
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
Former BCA chief lands gig at Geoff Wilson’s Future Generation
Jennifer Westacott will chair Future Generation Global, one of two philanthropic investment vehicles established by the high-profile fund manager.
- Jemima Whyte
US man who lived in trailer park hid a $5.7m secret
Geoffrey Holt did not own a car or furniture - but left millions of dollars after his death to the stunned residents of his small town in New England..
- Kathy McCormack and Robert F. Bukaty
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- Science
Rich List family’s $100m gift to change lives via immunology research
The Snow family is already one of Australia’s top philanthropists and it is making another big donation to transform global understanding of the immune system and autoimmune diseases.
- Julie Hare
‘No brainer’: Why this ex JB Hi-Fi CEO backed a Byron laundry
Businessman and Byron Bay local Richard Uechtritz has wrangled $12 million to open the Byron Shire’s only commercial laundry.
- Tess Bennett
How Rupert Myer says Australian business leaders are missing talent
The arts patron and philanthropic leader will challenge Rich Listers to do more to support the arts in Australia.
- Tom McIlroy
When David Paradice paid Solomon Lew $100,000 (to cross the road)
The billionaire and fund manager have been friends for years. They talk about why Paradice is like Columbo; what Lew does with director’s fee; and who paid the other $100,000 to cross the road.
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- Jemima Whyte
October
Donating from super could raise $22b a year for charities
Making it easier and cheaper to leave super to charity could boost giving by as much as $22 billion a year, the peak philanthropy body has said, as it pushes for reform.
- Lucy Dean
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- Tax deductions
Superannuation has become a wealth vehicle: Keneally
Former NSW premier and senator Kristina Keneally has ruled out a return to frontline politics and says Labor’s plans to double charitable giving needs more work.
- Tom McIlroy
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
Forrest foundation donates $10m to aid in Gaza
Minderoo funding will be used to enable the delivery of urgent medical supplies and support, emergency water, nutrition as well as child protection.
- Gus McCubbing
At breakfast, this group always leaves at least a $1500 tip
Lawyer Richard Brooks pulls out a pile of notes and counts them into a waiter’s hand, explaining that he and his friends are members of a club.
- Cathy Free
September
‘We can build anything’: Microphone mogul donates $1m to design
Peter Freedman, Rich Lister and founder of audio equipment giant Rode, hopes his gift will help business design and build things locally and reignite “Factory Australia”.
- Patrick Durkin
This charity couldn’t find enough puppies, so it’s breeding its own
In an attempt to meet demand for its animals, Assistance Dogs Australia has brought its breeding program in-house for the first time.
- Jemima Whyte
August
Soros foundation cuts EU funding as nationalist groups surge
The decision follows more than a decade of attacks from right-wing groups against George Soros, a 93-year-old Hungarian-born Jew who survived the Holocaust.
- Michael Winfrey
Tenor at your dinner? Opera Australia opens for business
The country’s largest performing arts company hopes to entice more corporate support with special access to its performers.
- Michael Bailey
