Links – Property Rights Australia

This Foundation originally traded as Gulf Horizons Foundation, a charity formed in Georgetown in far north Queensland, in 2011. It was the response to the downturn caused by the live export ban, floods, and fire throughout vast grazing and farming communities. Crippling debt and pressure from financial institutions soon followed, and now aggravated by severe drought throughout rural communities in Australian States. Since that time the ‘charity’ has been re-imagined and re-engineered into the National Foundation for Rural Australia, with the focus on raising substantial funds from many sources, then distributing those funds Australia wide, to rural organisations, charities, associations and communities, in order to support delivery of a range of services and supports to rural families, communities and small towns.

4) Aussie Helpers

Aussie Helpers are a non profit registered charity that has been operating since May 2002 from its original base in Charleville. People on the land typically are proud, resourceful, and independent, and many feel they have to manage on their own during the hard times. Aussie Helpers was formed to help fight poverty and lift the spirits of those severely affected by drought in rural Australia. Through the help of volunteers, and generous members of the community, the Aussie Helpers Association is a support network for farmers all over Australia.

5) Joane Nova Blog site – Matt and Janet Thompson

Did you know in Australia it’s possible to ruin a business if you don’t like the way it smells? This is a heartbreaking story — that a government could effectively ruin a family by slowly strangling them in red tape, and that they would have apparently no protection from the courts or the ombudsman. It eats away at our sense of justice. Can we speak freely? Are we all treated equally under the law, or are some laws only enforced according to a capricious whim?

This is also a story of sovereign risk. Investors in Australian industry beware.