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The once ‘strange’ child now saving a go-to Sydney nightlife venue

When Beau Neilson found out a Sydney institution was going to be turned into a fish-and-chip shop, “it felt like physical pain”.

  • Nick Galvin

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Fortescue founder and chairman Andrew Forrest.

‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s donations to Gaza now half that of Australian government

The Forrests’ $40 million donations for food, water and medical aid are now almost half of the value of the Australian government’s $82.5 million contribution to Palestinians.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Artwork: Dionne Gain

Gina Rinehart is the patron saint of Aussie sports. But it comes with weird strings attached

Though Gina Rinehart’s patronage of Australian sporting codes goes back well over a decade, her presence at the Olympics was more overt than what we’ve seen in the past.

  • Geoff Lemon
FILE - Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Melinda French Gates smiles as she leaves the Elysee Palace, June 23, 2023, in Paris. Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit shone of the largest philanthropic foundations in the world that she helped her ex-husband Bill Gates found more than 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Melinda French Gates to quit Gates Foundation, will exit with $19 billion for own charity work

She is leaving the nonprofit she co-founded with former spouse Bill Gates and will get $18.9 billion for her own work to uplift women and families.

  • Yuvraj Malik and Aditya Soni
Andrew and Nicola Forrest with Minderoo boss John Hartman on the banks of the Swan River in Perth last June.

Forrests’ $10 billion Minderoo charity to slash 100 jobs

About a third of the employees at Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo charity will lose their jobs as chief executive John Hartman looks to spend less of its more than $10 billion bounty on administration.

  • Peter Milne
From left, Sarah and Mark McGowan, Basil Zempilas, Kerry Stokes and wife Christine and Richard Goyder at the Telethon in Perth in October 2022.

Telethon Kids Institute to drop Telethon name

In a statement quietly released on Thursday the institute said it had mutually agreed with the Channel 7 Telethon Trust to rebrand next year.

  • Hamish Hastie
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Barrenjoey co-executive chairman Matthew Grounds and New York-based Eminence Capital fund manager Ricky Sandler will be at the eighth Sohn Hearts and Minds conference.

Top NY stock picker warns inflation to remain above pre-COVID levels

Ricky Sandler’s stock pick at the Sohn Hearts & Minds conference last year rallied 70 per cent. He’s back this year to support medical research.

  • Millie Muroi
Len Ainsworth is considered the father of the poker machine industry in Australia, having founded Aristocrat and Ainsworth Gaming Technologies.

Pokie billionaire Len Ainsworth has given millions to Sydney institutions. Now questions are being asked

Poker machines have been attacked for causing social harm. Now critics are going after the father of Australia’s poker machine industry and his family’s philanthropy.

  • Anne Hyland
For years Jeff Bezos largely stayed on the philanthropy sidelines.

Jeff Bezos and the billionaire philanthropy crowd are the worst kind of hypocrites

Silicon Valley is not genuine about solving the world’s problems

  • Ben Marlow
Retiring Swans player Josh Kennedy

‘Go long Swans, short Demons’: How this AFL icon landed his next gig

Sydney Swans icon Josh Kennedy wants to be a force for good in the world of finance as he swaps the football field for the trading floor.

  • Angus Thomson

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