The Following are paragraphs from an Article about Andrew Forest who Is married to the Maurice/Thompson Family
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/201 ... gy-forrest
Around this time, Andrew met Nicola. Her parents, Brooke and Tony Maurice, had also run a sheep station, Gillinghall, in western NSW. Now they lived in Robertson, in the Southern Highlands, where they managed holiday rental cabins. They belonged to the Australian League of Rights, a group described by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in 1991 as “the most influential and effective, as well as the best organised and most substantially financed, racist organisation in Australia”. The League’s founder, Eric Butler, who once theorised that Hitler had been a “Zionist” agent, saw Communist, Jewish and even “Fabian” conspiracies trying to subjugate white Australians. Butler’s followers considered themselves “soldiers of Christ” and their ideal nation was a Christian theocracy “in which every individual enjoys inalienable rights, derived from God, not from the State”. The League pressed its supporters to be “the mills of God, which grind very slowly and exceedingly small”. From the ’70s onward, they tried to infiltrate Coalition parties, earning the lasting hatred of moderate Liberals.
As early as 1972, the Maurices’ station had been used for League event bookings. When Tony died in 2004, the League’s newsletter, On Target, ran an obituary for the long-time supporter, which mentioned that the Christian Alternative Movement (a front group created to contest the ’83 federal election) “was formed during meetings at the Maurice home”. The Maurices’ eldest daughter, Katrina, remains married to David Thompson, Butler’s handpicked successor, who organised Australian speaking tours of David Irving, the infamous Holocaust revisionist.
The details of Andrew’s courtship remain hazy. At one stage he broke off the engagement. “He got a bit tired of talk of bridal dresses and babies and he said, ‘I don’t think I’m ready yet to be married, still a few more girls in the field,’” his father Don’s second wife, Marie, told the Australian in 2008. “I said to Andrew at the time, ‘You have just got rid of the best part of yourself.’ … About nine months later he said, ‘Well, I guess if I want to marry little Nic I’d better go and chase her.’ He did that but from then it was on her terms.”
Don Forrest told the same interviewer, Cameron Stewart: “Nic has been very good for him; she’s taught him other values.” Marie agreed that Nicola had been “determined to infuse Twiggy with more Christian values” and “demanded that they both do a counselling course before they married”. Said Marie: “[Nicola] wanted them to do this course together and then see how they felt at the end of it and maybe go forward with a different set of values.”
The League of Rights ran courses, including “Freedom Potentials” workshops. David Greason, a former member, recalled in the book Faces of Hate that these were “not too dissimilar to the evangelising, personal transformation courses so popular in California in the 1970s”. One Freedom Potentials graduate told the League’s newsletter in 1994 that he had “in a sense been reborn again” and that the workshop “moved [him] from belief to conviction [in] the Christian ideal”. Jeremy Lee, who ran the courses, was a founding figure in the Christian Alternative Movement launched at the Maurice home.
Whether the young couple attended a League-run course is unknown – Forrest declined to respond to questions for this article. (He abhors talking about his private life, once telling an interviewer that “all a high profile serves is to cause extraordinary circumstances around ordinary people and an ordinary family”.) Regardless, the Maurices’ daughter would become Andrew’s better half – handling the couple’s charity work and co-founding the Australian Children’s Trust. In effect, she would oversee the crusading side of Andrew’s image, the part of him that aspired to be more than just another “mining boss”.
Who are the Maurice and Thompson Family
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This is a twitter post that includes the content of an article that I can't access directly due to a paywall. I have sourced the book referenced in the public library and will post more information once I have read it
https://x.com/AustralianJA/status/1808311391579001322
Article by Paul Garvey in the Australian, below.
BILLIONAIRE philanthropist Andrew Forrest recruited the former head of the Australian League of Rights - an extremist group accused of anti-Semitism - as his head of external relations when he ran troubled mining company Anaconda Nickel, a new biography of the magnate reveals.
Mr Forrest, a devout Christian who carries the Bible with him, hired David Thompson as a senior executive at Anaconda soon after he stood down as the national director of the League of Rights in the late 1990s.
Mr Thompson - who lives in NSW and is married to the elder sister of Mr Forrest's wife, Nicola - courted controversy during his time with the league by organising speaking tours to Australia by the British Holocaust denier David Irving.
The revelations are contained in the book Twiggy: the High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest, by Andrew Burrell, a journalist with The Australian.
Mr Forrest rejected repeated approaches to co-operate with Burrell and to respond to claims made by others in the book, due to be released next week. The Australian has also unsuccessfully approached Mr Forrest for comments on the revelations to emerge from the book.
It reveals that Mr Forrest invited his then business partner, Warwick Grigor, to attend a League of Rights meeting in Sydney in 1994 when the pair ran investment bank Far East Capital.
In an interview with the author, Mr Grigor recalls he told Mr Forrest it "probably wasn't a good idea" to attend the meeting because of the league's poor public image. He says he can't be certain whether Mr Forrest went to the function or had direct involvement in the group.
However, it is known that Nicola Forrest's family had long been heavily involved in the league in NSW.
Her parents, Tony and Brooke Maurice, had hosted meetings for the league since the early 1970s and a front group created to contest the 1983 federal election, the Christian Alternative Movement, was formed at the farm they owned in western NSW.
In 1991, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission described the league as "undoubtedly the most influential and effective, as well as the best-organised and most substantially financed, racist organisation in Australia".
The book does not suggest that Mr Forrest, who has championed schemes to boost indigenous employment and is attempting to stop global slavery, and his family hold any racist views.
According to the book, Mr Forrest hired Mr Thompson as his external relations chief at Anaconda Nickel, a role that involved lobbying the company's powerful shareholders in a bid to keep Mr Forrest on the board.
Mr Thompson remained at Anaconda until Mr Forrest was eventually forced out in 2001, after Anaconda had lost hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder funds due to technical problems at the company's Murrin Murrin nickel plant in Western Australia.
In the book, Mr Thompson says he does not recall Mr Forrest being involved in the league.
The biography investigates how Mr Forrest transformed himself, through boundless energy and brilliant salesmanship, from a corporate pariah after being removed from Anaconda into one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs and philanthropists.
Last week, the Forrests donated a record-breaking $65 million to the tertiary sector before a VIP audience that included Tony Abbott, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett and state Governor Malcolm McCusker.
https://x.com/AustralianJA/status/1808311391579001322
Article by Paul Garvey in the Australian, below.
BILLIONAIRE philanthropist Andrew Forrest recruited the former head of the Australian League of Rights - an extremist group accused of anti-Semitism - as his head of external relations when he ran troubled mining company Anaconda Nickel, a new biography of the magnate reveals.
Mr Forrest, a devout Christian who carries the Bible with him, hired David Thompson as a senior executive at Anaconda soon after he stood down as the national director of the League of Rights in the late 1990s.
Mr Thompson - who lives in NSW and is married to the elder sister of Mr Forrest's wife, Nicola - courted controversy during his time with the league by organising speaking tours to Australia by the British Holocaust denier David Irving.
The revelations are contained in the book Twiggy: the High-Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest, by Andrew Burrell, a journalist with The Australian.
Mr Forrest rejected repeated approaches to co-operate with Burrell and to respond to claims made by others in the book, due to be released next week. The Australian has also unsuccessfully approached Mr Forrest for comments on the revelations to emerge from the book.
It reveals that Mr Forrest invited his then business partner, Warwick Grigor, to attend a League of Rights meeting in Sydney in 1994 when the pair ran investment bank Far East Capital.
In an interview with the author, Mr Grigor recalls he told Mr Forrest it "probably wasn't a good idea" to attend the meeting because of the league's poor public image. He says he can't be certain whether Mr Forrest went to the function or had direct involvement in the group.
However, it is known that Nicola Forrest's family had long been heavily involved in the league in NSW.
Her parents, Tony and Brooke Maurice, had hosted meetings for the league since the early 1970s and a front group created to contest the 1983 federal election, the Christian Alternative Movement, was formed at the farm they owned in western NSW.
In 1991, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission described the league as "undoubtedly the most influential and effective, as well as the best-organised and most substantially financed, racist organisation in Australia".
The book does not suggest that Mr Forrest, who has championed schemes to boost indigenous employment and is attempting to stop global slavery, and his family hold any racist views.
According to the book, Mr Forrest hired Mr Thompson as his external relations chief at Anaconda Nickel, a role that involved lobbying the company's powerful shareholders in a bid to keep Mr Forrest on the board.
Mr Thompson remained at Anaconda until Mr Forrest was eventually forced out in 2001, after Anaconda had lost hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder funds due to technical problems at the company's Murrin Murrin nickel plant in Western Australia.
In the book, Mr Thompson says he does not recall Mr Forrest being involved in the league.
The biography investigates how Mr Forrest transformed himself, through boundless energy and brilliant salesmanship, from a corporate pariah after being removed from Anaconda into one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs and philanthropists.
Last week, the Forrests donated a record-breaking $65 million to the tertiary sector before a VIP audience that included Tony Abbott, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett and state Governor Malcolm McCusker.
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More about the Australian League of Rights.
https://youtu.be/-sgyWQ1lxzE?si=LrsC2kyQhUTsEakw
There are a lot of parallels between the Australian League of Rights and Christian Fellowship.
Is Vic a white supremicist?
The paragraphs below are taken from page 194 of Faces of hate : hate crime in Australia. Edited by Tomsen, Stephen A; Cunneen, Chris; Fraser, David John. Published 1997: Leichhardt, N.S.W. : Federation Press
For most of it’s existence, the League was led by it’s founder, Eric Butler. However, in 1992, after nearly 60 years involvement in far right politics by Butler, leadership was handed over to David Thompson. Thompson, then 38, and like Butler a farmer, comes from a Western Australian League family, and moved to New Zealand in 1979 to run that country’s league of rights. In November that year, Thompson found himself at the centre of controversy, and on the front page of The Press (Christchurch) under the headline “Right League Leader spells out views on Jewish plot”. “I object to running away from things,” Thompson was quoted as saying. “Yes, I feel there’s an international Zionist conspiracy, hand in hand, with other international financial organisations.”
The League did not believe in multiracialism, the paper said, and opposed New Zealand’s acceptance of Indo-Chinese refugees. “We have enough problems here as it is,” Thompson was quoted as saying. “Mixing the races is not sensible because it does not work.” (Reference The Press (Christchurch) 19 November 1979)
https://youtu.be/-sgyWQ1lxzE?si=LrsC2kyQhUTsEakw
There are a lot of parallels between the Australian League of Rights and Christian Fellowship.
Is Vic a white supremicist?
The paragraphs below are taken from page 194 of Faces of hate : hate crime in Australia. Edited by Tomsen, Stephen A; Cunneen, Chris; Fraser, David John. Published 1997: Leichhardt, N.S.W. : Federation Press
For most of it’s existence, the League was led by it’s founder, Eric Butler. However, in 1992, after nearly 60 years involvement in far right politics by Butler, leadership was handed over to David Thompson. Thompson, then 38, and like Butler a farmer, comes from a Western Australian League family, and moved to New Zealand in 1979 to run that country’s league of rights. In November that year, Thompson found himself at the centre of controversy, and on the front page of The Press (Christchurch) under the headline “Right League Leader spells out views on Jewish plot”. “I object to running away from things,” Thompson was quoted as saying. “Yes, I feel there’s an international Zionist conspiracy, hand in hand, with other international financial organisations.”
The League did not believe in multiracialism, the paper said, and opposed New Zealand’s acceptance of Indo-Chinese refugees. “We have enough problems here as it is,” Thompson was quoted as saying. “Mixing the races is not sensible because it does not work.” (Reference The Press (Christchurch) 19 November 1979)
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Twiggy: The High-Stakes Life Of Andrew Forrest by Andrew Burrell. Published in 2013, Publisher: Black Inc: Collingwood. Read How You Want Large Print edition: font size 16.
(Note: Andrew and Nicola Forrest have officially separated in 2023)
Page 89: One of the personal assistants employed at Intersuisse’s office was a quiet, refined woman by the name of Nicola Maurice, who hailed from a Brethren farming family in rural NSW and had studied economics at university in Canberra before moving to Sydney.
Page 98: The Maurice’s, however, harboured a secret of which few of the wedding guests were aware: they were key figured in the Australian League of Rights, a far-right Christian group regularly accused of snit-Semitism. In 1991, as Andrew and Nicola exchanged vows, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission issued a report describing the league as “undoubtedly the most influential and effective, as well as the best organised and most substantially financed, racist organisation in Australia". Tony and Brooke Maurice has been hosting meetings for the League since the early 1970s. a front group created to content the 1983 federal election, the Christian Alternative Movement, was formed at the farm they owned at the time n western NSW in the 1980s, Nicola’s eldest sister, Katrina, married David Thompson, who went onto become the League’s national director, Thompson told league members upon his appointment in 1992: “In order for the Christian faith to command it’s place in the sweep of history, it’s practical application in every field of human endeavour is essential.” He also courted controversy by organising Australian speaking tour by British academic David Irving, the infamous holocaust denier.
Page 99-100: Forrest’s apparent interest in the League’s activities does not suggest he held any racist views. As the HREOC noted in it’s 1991 report, the League’s extremism was concealed by it’s espousal of family values, patriotism and nationalism – all qualities Forrest has long embraced, “The League represents the respectable face of racism. It’s advocacy of traditional values may have won it’s mainstream support from people who are unaware of it’s racist and extremist ideals,” the report said. Perhaps Andrew and Nicola were attracted to the League’s evangelistic Christian courses, which were run at the time by Jeremy Lee, a key figure in the Christian Alternative Movement launched at Nicola’s childhood home.
Page 100: Forrest got on well with this brother-in-law David Thompson. When Thompson stood down as head of the Australian League of Rights in the late 1990s, Forrest even hired him as the external relations manager at Anaconda Nickel, a senior role that involved lobbying the company’s powerful shareholders in a big to keep Forrest on the board. Thompson, who had learned plenty about politics and campaigning during his long association with the League, remained with Anaconda until Forrest was eventually forced out in 2001. Today he insists he doesn’t recall Forrest every being personally involved in the League, but he says they have remained in touch and share a commitment to Christianity.
Link to the 1991 HREOC report https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/defaul ... n/NIRV.pdf
(Note: Andrew and Nicola Forrest have officially separated in 2023)
Page 89: One of the personal assistants employed at Intersuisse’s office was a quiet, refined woman by the name of Nicola Maurice, who hailed from a Brethren farming family in rural NSW and had studied economics at university in Canberra before moving to Sydney.
Page 98: The Maurice’s, however, harboured a secret of which few of the wedding guests were aware: they were key figured in the Australian League of Rights, a far-right Christian group regularly accused of snit-Semitism. In 1991, as Andrew and Nicola exchanged vows, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission issued a report describing the league as “undoubtedly the most influential and effective, as well as the best organised and most substantially financed, racist organisation in Australia". Tony and Brooke Maurice has been hosting meetings for the League since the early 1970s. a front group created to content the 1983 federal election, the Christian Alternative Movement, was formed at the farm they owned at the time n western NSW in the 1980s, Nicola’s eldest sister, Katrina, married David Thompson, who went onto become the League’s national director, Thompson told league members upon his appointment in 1992: “In order for the Christian faith to command it’s place in the sweep of history, it’s practical application in every field of human endeavour is essential.” He also courted controversy by organising Australian speaking tour by British academic David Irving, the infamous holocaust denier.
Page 99-100: Forrest’s apparent interest in the League’s activities does not suggest he held any racist views. As the HREOC noted in it’s 1991 report, the League’s extremism was concealed by it’s espousal of family values, patriotism and nationalism – all qualities Forrest has long embraced, “The League represents the respectable face of racism. It’s advocacy of traditional values may have won it’s mainstream support from people who are unaware of it’s racist and extremist ideals,” the report said. Perhaps Andrew and Nicola were attracted to the League’s evangelistic Christian courses, which were run at the time by Jeremy Lee, a key figure in the Christian Alternative Movement launched at Nicola’s childhood home.
Page 100: Forrest got on well with this brother-in-law David Thompson. When Thompson stood down as head of the Australian League of Rights in the late 1990s, Forrest even hired him as the external relations manager at Anaconda Nickel, a senior role that involved lobbying the company’s powerful shareholders in a big to keep Forrest on the board. Thompson, who had learned plenty about politics and campaigning during his long association with the League, remained with Anaconda until Forrest was eventually forced out in 2001. Today he insists he doesn’t recall Forrest every being personally involved in the League, but he says they have remained in touch and share a commitment to Christianity.
Link to the 1991 HREOC report https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/defaul ... n/NIRV.pdf
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And this man had the audacity to call me Demonic. Shame on you Tim
Re: Who are the Maurice and Thompson Family
some extra family history.
David has 4 children. The eldest left, Jonathan his second born has been promoted into leadership. He speaks regularly in Bowral and I have seen him in Melbourne. He is a trade qualified electrician. Jonathan's wife is the sister of David Bakers wife.
So where does that place him.
He is the son of David Thompson
Nephew of Tim Maurice
Brother in Law to David Baker.
My personal experience is not one of warm feelings towards Jonathan. I remember his sense of entitlement expecting to be served without ever giving back, his disregard for others property and his callousness toward his elder sister who he excommunicated. This callousness is further extended to all who leave, he expects the same hardness from you. He is a product of his father and uncle. While I was not around long enough to see David Baker's influence as well I can't imagine it being positive.
Here is just another example of how CF keep the power in the family. Not actually based on formal training or suitability to provide counseling/teaching, let alone leading a church.
David has 4 children. The eldest left, Jonathan his second born has been promoted into leadership. He speaks regularly in Bowral and I have seen him in Melbourne. He is a trade qualified electrician. Jonathan's wife is the sister of David Bakers wife.
So where does that place him.
He is the son of David Thompson
Nephew of Tim Maurice
Brother in Law to David Baker.
My personal experience is not one of warm feelings towards Jonathan. I remember his sense of entitlement expecting to be served without ever giving back, his disregard for others property and his callousness toward his elder sister who he excommunicated. This callousness is further extended to all who leave, he expects the same hardness from you. He is a product of his father and uncle. While I was not around long enough to see David Baker's influence as well I can't imagine it being positive.
Here is just another example of how CF keep the power in the family. Not actually based on formal training or suitability to provide counseling/teaching, let alone leading a church.
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Which sister did Jonathon excommunicate?
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