Grace Tame makes it a family business

That's a tight little team at the Grace Tame Foundation that you're being asked to support: "The Grace Tame Foundation Board currently consists of three directors...  Grace Tame, Ron Plaschke and Max Heerey... Ron Plaschke being Grace’s step-father and Max Heerey being Grace’s partner." No independents on the board, then?

Grave Tame with fiance Max Heerey (right)

That's a tight little team at the Grace Tame Foundation that you're being asked to support. From its website, this declaration:

The Grace Tame Foundation Board currently consists of three directors plus an advisory panel. The three directors are Grace Tame, Ron Plaschke and Max Heerey as outlined below. The Directors are known to each other, Ron Plaschke being Grace’s step-father and Max Heerey being Grace’s partner.

Hmm, no independent on the board. No one independent with a vote on who gets what.

True, there is not just this declaration of a c0nflict of interest, but also a resolution not to draw a wage ... well,  until just a few months from now:

To best enable the important work of The Grace Tame Foundation, the Board has formally resolved that Directors (including Grace) will not receive or accrue any wages/salaries/remuneration for the first year of the Foundation’s operations.

I don't say for a second that the foundation's board is doing anything bad. In fact, Plaschke and Heerey are both qualified for their positions - and Plaschke very much so as a former Director of Australia’s Marine National Facility.

I am saying it would be very  wise to have a board that included at least one or two people not so intimately connected to Tame, and perhaps better able to give frank advice to a figurehead who to me seems to badly need it.

The board of Walter Mickac's Alannah & Madeline Foundation is a good example to follow.