Giving Bizz

There are many top executives who generously contribute to good causes, like the chief executive of HSBC who last year donated his US$6 million (AU$6.9 million) bonus. Some do it anonymously and some do it with fanfare, but some step into the limelight with reluctance. Mike Quigley, head of the Federal Government’s controversial National Broadband Network has donated all of his first year salary of $2 million to Neuroscience Research Australia. Usually a private man, he has agreed to go public about his donation to highlight the work that needs to be done to help sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Quigley benefitted from medical research himself when, in 1991, he received a bone-marrow transplant that helped him overcome leukaemia .

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