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Audette Exel

Audette Exel AO is founder of the Adara Group and the winner of the 2012 NSW Telstra Businesswoman of the Year Award. Audette was Australia’s 2016 “Leading Philanthropist” by Philanthropy Australia.

May 2021

  • NEPAL-HEALTH-VIRUS<br>A man wearing PPE suit (Personal Protection Equipment) sits as a body of a Covid-19 coronavirus fatality is kept at a crematorium in Kathmandu on May 14, 2021. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)

    double quotation markIn Australia we celebrate economic recovery as Covid ravages our neighbours

    Audette Exel
    I am exhausted by corporate Australia’s celebration of the rising economic tide, as the world divides into one of medical oases and deserts

January 2020

  • Bushfire donations drop-off point

    double quotation markKindness is not enough: Australia needs a strategic national response to the bushfires

    Audette Exel
    We’ve seen deeds of great courage and charity over the past few months. Now we need an effective, coordinated process to help the nation rebuild
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