As little as 10 weeks out from the polls, the public meetings, letters to editors, and door knocking are intensifying, and both sides are running the numbers.
Shireen Morris and Noel Pearson led one of the early projects on Indigenous constitutional recognition. A decade later, their work could become a reality.
Can Bill Gates fix the climate?
The billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist has a plan. Now he has to persuade the world to get with the program.
Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
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If you believed everything you saw about Bill Gates on the internet, you’d think the Microsoft co-founder wanted to enforce mandatory vaccinations around the world, replace democracy with a cabal of ruling elites and implant seven billion people with microchips.
The truth is a good deal simpler: while the COVID-19 pandemic hogged the headlines, the billionaire philanthropist and author has been quietly working to avert a man-made climate disaster. His solution is presented in his third book:
Rethinking the business of charity
A former M&A lawyer, Save the Children s Paul Ronalds is bringing his dealmaking acumen to the charity sector in a bid to rescue struggling organisations.
Save the Children directly reached nearly 40 million vulnerable children last year. Its mission spans 117 countries.
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Struggling as the disruption wrought by COVID-19 crashes into a second year, a cash-strapped charity leader picked up the phone to ask for help from one of the world s best known not-for-profits.
It s a familiar call for Paul Ronalds, Save the Children s Australian boss. A former merger and acquisitions lawyer and public servant, he has seen the sector rocked by a global pandemic, with surging need matched by a drying up of cash from donors.