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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Debbie Dadon.

Billionaire heiress sues over $12 million tax sting following separation

Debbie Dadon has dedicated her life to helping others,but when she went to top-tier tax specialists for advice they allegedly botched her affairs so badly she could end up paying tax twice.

  • Sarah Danckert
Advertising legend Peter Clemenger.

At 98,Peter Clemenger is not too old for one life-affirming revelation

The advertising executive was an industry giant who once child-minded the young Lachlan and James Murdoch.

  • Stephen Brook
Controversial billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin

French billionaire pleads for Napoleonic law change so he can disinherit his children

Controversial billionaire Pierre-Edouard Sterin,who has been labelled the “French Elon Musk”,is calling for changes to the law.

  • Tara Patel andAnia Nussbaum
Shearwater Capital co-founder Mike Gregg was an early investor in WiseTech.

Meet the Sydney billionaires buying up property to change the world

A $10 million gift from Mike Gregg,early investor in WiseTech Global,and his wife,Sue,could be the largest single philanthropic donation of its kind in NSW.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Assistant treasurer and assistant minister for productivity and competition Andrew Leigh.

Boomers will leave their kids $5.4 trillion. This minister thinks we should give it away instead

The government wants to double philanthropic donations by 2030. But our charitable instincts seem to be going in the opposite direction.

  • Jenna Price
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Lee Mathews “Clementine” shirt and “Tabi” pants. Stele sculpture by Liu Jianhua.

A 60-seat table and a staircase fit for a horse:Judith Neilson’s home is one of a kind

The 79-year-old billionaire art patron gives Jacqueline Maley a rare look inside for a frank conversation about legacy,philanthropy and her modest childhood.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Sandy Weill and wife Joan with Angel in 2016.,

Wall Street high-flyer gives $171 million to vet school that treated his dog

Former Citigroup chief Sandy Weill and his wife Joan have awarded one of the largest gifts ever in animal medicine.

  • Francesca Maglione
Paula Fox,AC,in her Portsea home.

‘She never stops’:What makes Paula Fox such a tenacious giver

Fox,recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours,is known as “the extractor” for her capacity to get people to open their wallets for important causes.

  • Chip Le Grand
Adele Burke (centre),with Nikki and Angus Dawson. Burke is the recipient of a new $100,000 scholarship from the Katrina Dawson Foundation.

A decade after Katrina Dawson’s death,Adele hopes to ‘do justice’ to her name

Adele Burke has been named the inaugural Katrina Dawson John Monash Scholar,receiving a $100,000 grant to study at Oxford.

  • Siena Fagan