This Month
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
- Exclusive
- 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
The suburbs where kids’ inheritance is more than $3m
The top postcodes were revealed in a bid to encourage more charitable giving by making it easier to donate super.
- Lucy Dean and Joanna Mather
July
This Rich Lister has no regrets about his $20m private school gift
The $20 million concert hall on the grounds of Terry Snow’s alma mater, Canberra Grammar School, has quickly gained a reputation among international musicians.
- Michael Bailey
June
- Exclusive
- Andrew Forrest
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
Philanthropy not growing fast enough to meet Labor’s 2030 target
Grants and distributions by charities increased 5 per cent to $9.7 billion in 2021, but that rate of growth is insufficient to hit the Albanese government’s goal of doubling philanthropy by 2030.
- Lucy Dean
- 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
Forrest mega-gift to cajole other billionaires to give more
The $5 billion donation from Andrew and Nicola Forrest to their Minderoo Foundation will likely serve as a powerful exemplar for Australia’s peer-conscious billionaires.
- Michael Bailey
Andrew and Nicola Forrest donate $5b to their Minderoo charity
Andrew Forrest and his wife, Nicola, have donated about $5 billion in Fortescue Metals Group shares to their own charity, the Minderoo Foundation.
- Updated
- Tom Rabe, Hans van Leeuwen and Michael Bailey
- Explainer
- Explainers
How to give away your money like a billionaire (even if you’re not)
Public and private ancillary funds have a major branding problem. Solving it could be the key to unlocking a new generation of philanthropists.
- Lucy Dean
May
- Exclusive
- Education
Bakers Delight founder stumps up $1m to boost uni attendance
Roger Gillespie hates seeing good talent go to waste. A program he is backing is changing the stakes for kids from rural Victoria.
- Julie Hare
‘I have struggled’: Packer’s $7m mood disorder gift
James Packer’s turbulent personal history with mood disorders and mental health has prompted a generous gift to university research.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
