Author Archives: Dr David Kennedy

While perusing the Giving Pledge website (https://givingpledge.org ), as I do from time to time, I realised that two more Australians have joined the pledge. Of the 111 Australian billionaires (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Review_Rich_List_2021), that brings the number of Giving Pledge signatories to […]Continue reading «Two more Australians join The Giving Pledge»

There are only a few days left for Australians to make tax-deductible charitable donations for the End Of Financial Year 30 June 2020. Besides making yourself feel great about giving to the charitable organisations that you love, remember that the […]Continue reading «The EOFYthing»

Each year for the past ten years, the Charities Aid Fund publishes a list of “the world’s most generous countries.” It’s called the CAF World Giving Index (https://www.cafonline.org/docs/default-source/about-us-publications/caf_wgi_10th_edition_report_2712a_web_101019.pdf) and it uses data from the Gallup World Poll (https://www.gallup.com/analytics/232838/world-poll.aspx). Based on […]Continue reading «Is Australia one of the most generous countries in the world?»

Imagine if you were 17 years old and you learned that your mother and 12-year old brother were killed in a head-on car collision with a semi-trailer? And your remaining 14-year old sibling, in the same car, was injured so […]Continue reading «Unthinkable tragedies hard to even imagine…»

The 2014 Rich 200 List will appear in the Wealth Issue of the July edition of the AFR Magazine. At newsstands on Friday morning, 27 June, and free online via BRW.com.au. I wonder if some folks buy it just so […]Continue reading «Giving it Away in Tax Year 2013-14»

At 11:00 am on Wednesday morning, 7 August, a 78 year-old self-made Queensland millionaire fronted the media in Brisbane and announced that he was making a gift of $50,100,000 to the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) in the hopes […]Continue reading «“Berghofer, You Beauty!”»

All of Australia celebrates the 103-year life of Dame Elisabeth Joy (née Greene) Murdoch AC DBE. As a humanitarian, charity activist, and philanthropist, she will be an enduring role model. Her legacy will include the many organisations that she has […]Continue reading «Vale, Dame Elisabeth Joy (née Greene) Murdoch AC DBE»