Pauline Gandel is an Australian philanthropist. She is known as the "matriarch" of the billionaire Gandel family, who own a number of shopping centres. She began her charity work by running an op shop at

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for

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and

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for over a decade, and co-founded Gandel Philanthropy with her husband in 1978.

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described her as "a fixture of Melbourne's charity landscape". The Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery at the

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, the Pauline Gandel Women's Imaging Centre at the

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and the Pauline Gandel Scholarship at

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are named for her. The gallery was funded with a $1 million donation from Gandel personally, the largest donation from an individual in

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's history. She was made a Companion of the

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, the highest possible Australian honour, in January 2019, for "eminent service to the community through humanitarian, philanthropic and fundraising endeavours, to social inclusion, and to Australia-Japan relations". She had previously been awarded

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, Gold Rays with Rosette, in 2014, for her efforts to promote "mutual understanding of Japanese culture in Australia through Japanese art and tea ceremony".

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