{"id":3186,"date":"2020-01-13T00:18:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2023-08-14T05:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T21:23:04","slug":"minderoo-foundation-registered-with-the-australian-electoral-commission-as-a-political-campaigner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/minderoo-foundation-registered-with-the-australian-electoral-commission-as-a-political-campaigner\/","title":{"rendered":"Twiggy’s Minderoo Foundation registered with the Australian Electoral Commission as a political campaigner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jommy Tee<\/span> continues his examination<\/a><\/span> into the philanthropic world of Andrew (Twiggy) Forrest. <\/span> <\/span><\/h2>\n

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Well, well, I knew the Minderoo Foundation did a YouTube video promoting the cashless debit card …. but looks like ads on Google and the Book of Faces were part of the mix as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Explains why the Minderoo Foundation registered with the Australian Electoral Commission as a political campaigner.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ammo, the company used by Minderoo to run Facebook ads, also worked on the Liberal Party ads in WA during the 2019 Federal election<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ammo Marketing is run by Cam Sinclair. Who was once formerly employed by the Libs in WA, and previously worked for Cormann for a short time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ammo Marketing is only a business trading name for a discretionary trading trust: “The Trustee for Running Buffalo”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back to the cashless debit card – a Twiggy (Minderoo) paternalistic device – wholeheartedly embraced by the LNP government.<\/span><\/p>\n

He seeks to impose restrictions for those on welfare, yet had no hesitation in giving a job to<\/span> a convicted insider trader<\/a><\/span>, 3 months post his sentence ending.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The insider trader (later turned ASIC witness to convict another insider trader) became and still is Twiggy’s COO at the Minderoo Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m all for rehabilitation, but it appears Twiggy applies different standards to those who come from a different socio-economic background.<\/span><\/p>\n

And hence I’m concerned what Twiggy’s & Minderoo’s proposed $50M bushfire resilience blueprint will recommend and eventually deliver ……..and who wins and who loses from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

My final word … Twiggy is also encouraging people to donate to the bushfire rebuild, via the Mindaroo Foundation. Very generously not charging any administration fees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why a charity sitting on $1.3B in assets wants you to do that at the expense of other charities… who knows?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Addendum<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Just went through the books of Twiggy's Minderoo Foundation Trust (source: https:\/\/t.co\/ZX6HDtfncq<\/a>).

Went from a loss of $100K in 2015 to subsequent respective annual profits of:

2016 $19.2M
2017 $207.0M
2018 $358.7M
2019 $710.2M

Most of it from donations each year \ud83e\udd14 pic.twitter.com\/qiuRLGMl9O<\/a><\/p>— Jommy Tee \ud83c\udf10 (@jommy_tee) January 10, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>