Official AEC return 42850

The Minderoo Foundation Pty Ltd atf The Minderoo Foundation Trust

Third Party Return · financial year 2017–18 · reference YXTB6

Current name in register: The Minderoo Foundation Pty Ltd atf The Minderoo Foundation Trust · AEC entity 38549. Historical names are preserved rather than rewritten.

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Threshold reported on this return: $13,500
Amendment number in itemised receipt data: 0
Source snapshot: 2026-09-08 · AEC annual returns of third parties, row 232 (export table “AnnualThirdParty”)

Return-level measures

Each row is its own reported measure. Totals and their itemised/subcategory amounts overlap and must not be added together. Payments, expenditure and donations have different source definitions.

As reported in this 2017-18 third party return
Measure	Nominal AUD
Electoral expenditure	$0
Total expenditure	$973,194
Total gifts received	$402,000,000
Expenditure: party/candidate expression	$0
Expenditure: printing and production	$0
Expenditure: broadcast	$796,049
Expenditure: opinion polling	$177,145
Expenditure: other issue expression	$0

Itemised records

3 records in the available receipt/donation/debt/benefit/contribution lists. This need not equal every return-level measure: thresholds, definitions and reporting coverage differ.

Third Party Gift

Individual source records · no donor/recipient reconciliation implied
Other party	Category / period	Amount	Source
Andrew & Nicola Forrest Source · reported by The Minderoo Foundation Pty Ltd atf The Minderoo Foundation Trust	Third Party Gift 2017–18 · Third Party Return	$150,000,000	Record details Return 42850
Andrew & Nicola Forrest Source · reported by The Minderoo Foundation Pty Ltd atf The Minderoo Foundation Trust	Third Party Gift 2017–18 · Third Party Return	$50,000,000	Record details Return 42850
Andrew & Nicola Forrest Source · reported by The Minderoo Foundation Pty Ltd atf The Minderoo Foundation Trust	Third Party Gift 2017–18 · Third Party Return	$202,000,000	Record details Return 42850

Read the disclosure in context

This snapshot covers all 27 annual financial years in the AEC bulk export, 1998–99 to 2024–25, retrieved 8 September 2026. It includes parties, associated entities, significant third parties/campaigners, third parties, donors, members and senators. Election and referendum returns are separate collections and are not included.

Donor and recipient reports are separate views of disclosures and must not be added together. Receipts, donations, debts, payments, expenditure and public funding are different measures. A receipt need not be a donation, and a payment need not be electoral expenditure. These are nominal Australian dollars, not adjusted for inflation.

The 2024–25 annual release was published on 2 February 2026. Individual amendment publication dates are not supplied in these bulk lists. Annual reporting has delays and disclosure thresholds. The reported threshold appears on each return; it is not a filter removing smaller voluntarily disclosed entries. Missing records do not prove there was no financial relationship, and a disclosure does not prove influence or wrongdoing.

Current register lists include reported amendments where supplied. They are a dated snapshot, not a complete amendment history. Potentially overlapping historical donor returns remain separate and their combined totals are withheld. Names follow official AEC entity IDs; similarly named entities are not merged.

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