As Scomo would say:
How good is VMS and how good is our Management supported by honest hard working employees etc ALL creating a wealth of the Nation and contributing to enormous amounts of tax to support all necessary services, the education, army, aged care, health care etc... creating new businesses and jobs...
The explorations results on all our fertile tenements in Tassie and WA may create another mining businesses ... and without mining our economy would be already in recession and the budget not in surplus but deeply in crisis...
The bad news that our democratic system is still struggling with weeding out the unproductive minority which chose to illegally vandalize the legal productive businesses and still those parasitic individual and groups are taking advantage of our generous taxation system... eg the cults masquerading as a charities are really taking advantage of hard working taxpayers ... one cult is employing 15 and guess what ... we have 15 trolls active historically on our thread... and rejax is only the last of the parasites...
"How much of this money was used to pay people to protest and to fly in protesters from interstate and overseas?"It's also interesting to see that the Bob Brown Foundation is actually paying Bob Brown to speak at its events."All of this is being subsidised by the taxpayer because the Bob Brown Foundation is registered as a so-called charity."The federal government needs to step in immediately and make sure taxpayers aren't subsidising organisations like the Bob Brown Foundation, which is clearly trying to destroy the jobs of hard-working Tasmanians."
The foundation reported $229,000 of income from sales of products for the year and spent $8545 on speaking fees for Dr Brown.
Other line items in the financial report to the commission included $238,000 in grants, $201,000 in consulting and professional fees, $45,000 in computer expenses and $81,000 listed as sundry expenses.
"These figures show that the Bob Brown Foundation have turned protesting into a business," Tasmanian Forest Products Association chief executive Nick Steel said.
"They paid over three quarters of a million dollars in wages and well over $100,000 on travel.
Bob Brown Foundation rolling in money, documents show / Sean Ford
How good is Australia that parasites can make more money than the successful business?
A cashed up charity which targets forestry and some mining operations in Tasmania spent $761,000 on staff and $116,000 on travel last financial year.
The Bob Brown Foundation - named after the former Australian Greens leader - reported an annual surplus of $322,000 to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and raised more than $1.05 million from fundraising activities and $190,000 from bequests.
The foundation is exempt from income tax under a section of the Income Tax Assessment Act which covers entities including registered charities, scientific institutions, public education institutions and some others.
It has targeted various forestry operations over the years, as well as Venture Minerals Limited's developing Riley Iron Ore Mine near Tullah.
The parasites are laughing all the way to the bank while hard working businesses and employees are charged huge taxes!
https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/7199110/bob-browns-environmentalist-charity-rolling-in-cash/
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