'If you want to purchase assets through the trust, you need...

'If you want to purchase assets through the trust, you need funds right? So how do you propose to fund (or capitalise) the trust?'

By transfering onshore funds into your personal bank account, held in the UK or NZ and then into the offshore trust.

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'And I'd imagine you would want to access the funds at some stage which will require repatriation of the funds to Australia at some point'

Tranfer funds from the offshore trust account, into a uk or nz credit card, in your own name and spend from such.

Ditto bank account

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then tt the money into your australian bank account or your lawyers trust account