The West Australian Opera has today announced Nicola and Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation has joined its 50th anniversary celebrations as a major partner, contributing $75,000.
Construction has started on the University of Western Australia's Forrest Hall, a $16 million accommodation facility designed to attract the world's best researchers to the state.
SPECIAL REPORT: Wealthy Western Australians have made some eye-popping philanthropic pledges over the years but none as large as one of Gina Rinehart's recent moves.
Donations totalling more than $200,000 have been made in the past two days ahead of tonight's CEO Sleepout fundraiser, but organiser St Vincent de Paul Society of WA is still hoping a final surge in contributions will exceed the $1 million mark.
Many of Perth's top executives are short of their fundraising targets just three days before the year's major homelessness fundraiser, the CEO Sleepout.
Andrew and Nicola Forrest are recognised as two of Western Australia's most prominent philanthropists, but recent developments in Canberra show their influence on social policy continues to spread.
Andrew and Nicola Forrest's Minderoo Foundation is pushing for a Western Australian early learning centre to become the template for a national strategy.
The appointment of investment banker Michael Ashforth as manager of the Bennett family's $1.5 billion fortune highlights the maturing of Western Australia's private wealth market.
The Abbott government has published the long-awaited Forrest Review of Indigenous jobs and training, with wide ranging recommendations including a healthy welfare card.
The Western Australian Museum Foundation is in the final stages of establishing governance and investment structures to support what it hopes will be the largest cultural endowment fund in Australia.
Former Perth lawyer Nick Grono will return to Europe to run a new anti-slavery fund backed by his most recent boss, iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest, and other leading philanthropists.
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has further enhanced his credentials as one of the nation's leading philanthropists with a pledge of $65 million to Western Australia's universities.
Andrew Forrest's philanthropic efforts are as restless as the iron ore magnate himself. Recent changes appear to be part of a restructuring of his various private and charitable interests under the new brand of Minderoo.
