Grahame Mapp has been on every AFR rich list since it was first established in 1984. Mapp has business interests in various sectors, including mining, entertainment, property, and horseracing. He is affiliated with two dark companies on the Secret Rich List.
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Sam and Andrew Buckeridge
Sam and Andrew Buckeridge are the sons of construction tycoon the late Len Buckeridge, the founder of Buckeridge Group of Companies (BGC). The pair are directors of three dark companies that are exempt from lodging their financial statements with ASIC.
Nicholas Paspaley
Nicholas Paspaley is the director of Paspaley Pearling Company, Australia’s oldest and largest pearl producer. He has donated over $1.1 million to the major political parties since the 1998-99 financial year and has one dark company on the Secret Rich List.
Alan Rydge
Alan Rydge, chairman of Event Hospitality and Entertainment Ltd, controls Thredbo ski resort, 66 hotels including the Rydges group, the Events Cinema chain and vacant mansions in Australia’s most affluent suburb. Rydge is affiliated with one dark company, Enbeear Pty Ltd.
Bob Ell
Bob Ell began his career as a carpentry apprentice prior and founded Leda Holdings in 1976 to become of of Australia’s most wealthy property developers. Ell has since amassed a fortune of $1.98 billion and is the director of eleven dark companies.
Marc Besen
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Alex Waislitz
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Anthony Pratt
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Lindsay Fox
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Investigation: how political donations protect a cosy loophole for Australia’s plutocrats
“Political donations buy access to parliamentarians, they buy policy outcomes, and they buy a post-parliament career with the revolving door between politics and business”. Stephanie Tran and Michael West investigate the dark money which flows from Australia’s old-wealth family empires to the major political parties.
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