Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation has $7 billion in assets.

‘Next shiny thing’:Inside Twiggy Forrest’s $7 billion charity

“Never,ever give up”,the Minderoo Foundation says. So what happened to the projects tackling bushfires,floods and plastic polluting the world’s oceans?

  • Patrick Begley andEryk Bagshaw

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The Abbostford Convent was ‘saved’ but its future is not assured.

Tenant feuds,a fiscal cliff and board upheaval:Why ‘saved’ Abbotsford Convent is under new cloud

Mounting financial pressure and governance upheaval are threatening the vision laid out two decades ago,prompting questions about the precinct’s future.

  • Clay Lucas
Greg Sadler,chief executive of Good Ancestors;Claire Pullen,executive director of the Australian Writers’ Guild;Nicholas Pickard,executive director of public affairs at music rights body APRA AMCOS.

Charity shaping AI copyright rules funded by Anthropic-linked donors

The charity advising Canberra on AI and copyright has taken $1 million from donors with ties to Anthropic,the company its proposal would benefit.

  • David Swan
The ACCC is suing Grill’d for allegedly misleading consumers about its “Tree Day Tuesday” donations.

Grill’d could be forced to donate millions for allegedly burying the fine print

The burger chain claimed it was donating $1 per burger sold during a promotion,but the consumer watchdog alleges only 4 per cent of purchases actually qualified.

  • Jessica Yun
The Big Issue is celebrating its 30th anniversary after its launch on the streets of Melbourne in 1996.

I was too busy for the charity vendor. But he said something that stopped me in my tracks

Australia’s giving sector has shown its incredible heart this week,but behind the scenes,an unsustainable number of non-profits are competing for survival.

  • Stephen Brook
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‘Highly sexualised workplace’:Children’s charity shut down amid claims of lewd behaviour

A multimillion-dollar charity has had its accreditation revoked and its government contract cancelled after the Herald raised allegations of a “hostile” and “toxic” culture.

  • Amber Schultz
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Former Foley House resident Bruce Rigby.

Footscray’s most vulnerable were promised a ‘forever’ home. Now they have to move out

Weeks after the Victorian government spruiked a new cafe as the key to solving the area’s homeless crisis,a nearby residential facility’s closure will put vulnerable men at risk of being without a home.

  • Cassandra Morgan
NDIS advocates during a post-budget press conference at Parliament House in Canberra earlier this month.

Children’s disability workers to be axed as NDIS changes loom

The Brotherhood of St Laurence is set to axe up to 45 of its early childhood coordinator roles,currently funded under a contract with the National Disability Insurance Scheme,as it transitions to a greater focus on adult disability services.

  • Grant McArthur
HBF Run for a Reason,2026.
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In pictures:HBF Run for a Reason

A photo gallery of the HBF Run for a Reason event on May 24,2026.

Joe Shin with wife Hwayoung at the Convent Bakery at the Abbotsford Convent on Thursday.

Abbotsford Convent ordered to return keys to cafe after legal stoush

The convent was on Monday ordered by VCAT to return a locked-out restaurant to its tenant,after the self-represented owner took on management’s legal team.

  • Clay Lucas