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Joseph Gutnick
Joseph Isaac "Diamond Joe" Gutnick (born June 1952; ) is an Australian businessman, mining industry entrepreneur and the former president of the Melbourne Football Club (1996–2001). He is also an ordained Orthodox rabbi, and is well known for his philanthropy in the Jewish world. He declared bankruptcy in July 2016. Early life Gutnick's father, Rabbi Shneur Chaim HaKohen Gutnick, was born in Zolotonosha, Ukraine, in 1921. He studied at the Telshe yeshiva in Lithuania until 1940 when the country was annexed by the Soviet Union and, via the far east, came to Cairns, Australia in 1941. After serving in the Australian Army until 1944 Gutnick married Rose Chester in 1945 and the couple had six children together, two daughters and four sons, Channah, Peninah, Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick, Rabbi Moshe Gutnick, Avraham, and Joseph. Joseph Gutnick was born in 1952. His father died in 2003 after an influential life in the Australian Jewish community, having become president of the Rabbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons or colloquially the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Melbourne is the world's oldest football clubs, oldest professional club of any football code. If we are to accept contemporary accounts from the news of the day the club's founding father is James Bryant (Australian cricketer), James Bryant (1826-1881), an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket matches for Surrey cricket team, Surrey and Victoria cricket team, Victoria. Bryant used Melbourne's Bell's Life newspaper to call for the young men of Melbourne to assemble at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) at one o’clock on the 31st July 1858 to play a game of football, and after, further assemble to form a committee to draw up a short code of rules."Footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Labor Party
The Israeli Labor Party (), commonly known in Israel as HaAvoda (), was a Social democracy, social democratic political party in Israel. The party was established in 1968 by a merger of Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda and Rafi (political party), Rafi. Until 1977, all Israeli prime ministers were affiliated with the Labor movement. The final party leader was Yair Golan, who 2024 Israeli Labor Party leadership election, was elected on 28 May 2024. A party in the Labor Zionist tradition supporting the welfare state and trade union links, the Labor Party was associated with supporting the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, pragmatic foreign affairs policies and social-democratic economic policies. The party has also been described as Secularism, secular, Progressivism, progressive, and in favour of a two-state solution. The party was a member of Socialist International until July 2018, and was subsequently a member of the Progressive Alliance and an observer member of the Party of European S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regis Resources
Regis Resources is an Australian-based, Australian Securities Exchange-listed (ASX) gold producer and explorer based in Subiaco, Western Australia. The company's main assets are the fully-owned Duketon Gold Project and a 30 percent share in the Tropicana Gold Mine, both located in Western Australia. From 1987 to 2004, Australian businessman and mining industry entrepreneur Joseph Gutnick served as a director of the company, at times also filling the role of chairman and managing director. History The company was established on 12 May 1986 as Johnson’s Well Mining NL and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on 19 February 1987. Australian businessman and mining industry entrepreneur Joseph Gutnick served as a director of the company from 1987, later taking on the role of managing director and chairman, which he held until August 2004, when he resigned from all board positions. As part of this leadership change, Gutnick also relinquished some of the company's depth a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Champion De Crespigny
Robert James Champion de Crespigny, Order of Australia, AC (born 1950) is a multi-millionaire Australian businessman and founder of Normandy Mining. Currently estimated with his ownership in PBE and Rutherford corporations his net worth is near 1B. In 2004 his personal wealth was approximately $170 million. His positions in corporate and public life include chancellor of the University of Adelaide (2000-2004) and chair of the South Australian Economic Development Board (South Australia), Economic Development Board (2002-2006) and a role on the South Australian Minerals & Petroleum Expert Group (SAMPEG) for the Department of State Development (South Australia), Department of State Development. He resides in the United Kingdom. Career Champion de Crespigny was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. During his university studies, he was resident at Trinity College (University of Melbourne), Trin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronzewing Gold Mine
The Bronzewing Gold Mine is a gold mine located approximately 83 km north-east of Leinster, Western Australia. The mine, owned by Navigator Resources Limited, has been in care and maintenance since March 2013, after its owner went into administration. The mine is located within the Yandal Greenstone Belt, and is owned by Northern Star Resources. History The Bronzewing deposit was discovered by Mark Creasy, and its sale earned him an entry into the Guinness Book of Records as the prospector receiving the richest payout, A$115 million from Great Central Mines.Minerals boom leads to Bronzewing revival Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast: 27 November 2006, accessed: 15 December 2009 The Bronzewing Gold Mine opened in 1991, then under the ownership of Great Central Mines, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Creasy
Mark Gareth Creasy (born 1944) is a Western Australian mining entrepreneur. Biography Creasy arrived in Australia in the 1960s, and trained as a mining engineer. He has developed various mining projects in Western Australia and other states. By 2010 his net worth was claimed to be $283 million (AU). Creasy had discovered the Bronzewing Gold Mine, and had sold the mine in the 1990s. By the early 2000s he had had a ten year long legal battle over Bronzewing South tenements with rival Leith Beal. Many journalists fall back on terms such as ''Midas'', and ''prospector'', when describing Creasy's wealth and achievement in finding and investing in resources. Creasy pledged 500,000 towards the construction of a statue called ''Ascalon'' in Cathedral Square, Perth, and also contributed towards floating rocks in fountains in Forrest Place and the Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. Carlisle's early history is marked by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Central Mines
Great Central Mines was an Australian gold mining company. The company lost its independence in 1999, when it was taken over by Normandy Mining, and was renamed Normandy Yandal Operations Limited in 2000. The company's takeover however led to lengthy court proceedings, initiated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, which only finalised in February 2003.GREAT CENTRAL MINES LIMITED (GCM) delisted.com.au, accessed: 14 February 2010 At this stage, Normandy Mining itself had been taken over by the . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diggers And Dealers
Diggers & Dealers is an annual mining conference held in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. First held in 1992, today it is attended by over 2,500 delegates. As of 2023, a three-day pass to the conference costs $2,250, while a one-day pass costs $1,110. History Ron Wise was a founder of the annual Diggers & Dealers event in Kalgoorlie. 1992 The annual conference was initiated by Palace Hotel, Kalgoorlie proprietor Geoffrey Stokes in 1992, with the first conference attended by 10 delegates. 2009 The 2009 conference was held during the Global Recession, with 12,000 jobs having been lost in the Australian mining industry in the previous eight months. Despite this, Western Australian mining recovered much better than most, and the general mood was "upbeat", unlike in the previous year. 2010 The event, usually non-political and mining orientated, was overshadowed by the 2010 Australian federal election, held less than three weeks later. It was dominated by discussion about the unpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jundee Gold Mine
The Jundee Gold Mine is an active gold mine in Western Australia, approximately 47 km north east of the town of Wiluna, owned by Northern Star Resources.Jundee, Western Australia Newmont website, accessed: 20 December 2009 History 
The Jundee mine was opened in 1995, originally as an open pit operation and, from 1997, also as an underground mine.
Originally, the mine was owned to 51% by
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Plutonic Gold Mine
The Plutonic Gold Mine is a gold mine located 82 km east-northeast of Peak Hill, Western Australia. It is owned and operated by Catalyst Metals Limited after a merger with the previous owner, Canadian miner Superior Gold, in June 2023. It is located in the Plutonic Well Greenstone Belt. 5.5 million ounces of gold have been produced from both open pit and underground operations at Plutonic, since it opened in 1990. History In 1988, Great Central Mines discovered the deposit which was to become Plutonic, which it sold for A$50 million in 1989,Chairman Argus has a little bet each way '''', published: 8 February 2008, accessed: 11 February 2010 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister paper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. , this had fallen to 4.55 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menachem Schneerson
Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( – June 12, 1994; Anno Mundi, AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an American Orthodox rabbi and the most recent Rebbe of the Chabad, Lubavitch List of Hasidic dynasties and groups, Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.Matt Flegenheimer"Thousands Descend on Queens on 20th Anniversary of Grand Rebbe’s Death", ''The New York Times'' As leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he took an insular Hasidic group that almost came to an end with the Holocaust and transformed it into one of the most influential movements in religious Jewry, with an international network of over 5,000 educational and social centers. The institutions he established include kindergartens, schools, drug-rehabilitation centers, care-homes for the disabled, and synagogues.Editorial, 07/08/14"Rebbe to the city and Reb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
