WAVEAID

WAVE AID HANDS OVER $2.3 MILLION TO CHARITIES

PETER GARRETT (MIDNIGHT OIL), BEN GILLIES (SILVERCHAIR), DONNA SIMPSON (THE WAIFS), MISSY HIGGINS and PHIL JAMIESON (THE WRIGHTS, GRINSPOON) this morning handed over cheques worth $576,118.00 each to Marc Thompson from AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS, Andrew Hewett and Adrian Kinslor from OXFAM COMMUNITY AID ABROAD, Carolyn Hardy and Kate Mayhew from UNICEF, and Robert Glasser from CARE AUSTRALIA, for a total donation of

$2,304,472.00
[each charity receiving $576,118.00]

Click here to view complete profit and loss statement

THE HON. SANDRA NORI MP, Minister for Tourism and Sport and Recreation and Minister for Women, presented the Wave Aid artists, promoters and managers with certificates of appreciation thanking them for their time and services that made the event possible.

Event Producer MICHAEL CHUGG also acknowledged the many companies and individuals who donated time, products and services, thereby ensuring the success of Wave Aid and its $2.3m donation.

A full breakdown of the profit and loss for the event will be published here on the official WAVE AID website.

Such an unprecedented event has sparked one of Australia’s all time favourite live bands into action for the evening as MIDNIGHT OIL join in to do their bit as part of this massive Australian music fundraiser.

WAVEAID will also feature live sets by POWDERFINGER, whose performance will be on the back of a sold out Hordern Pavilion and the Sydney Big Day Out as well as THE JOHN BUTLER TRIO, KASEY CHAMBERS, NICK CAVE (in intimate mode), THE WAIFS, THE FINN BROTHERS, MISSY HIGGINS, PETE MURRAY and for their first Australian performance in nearly two years SILVERCHAIR.

The WAVEAID concert will also premiere THE WRIGHTS (featuring members of Jet, The Living End, Grinspoon, Powderfinger, Spiderbait, You Am I & Dallas Crane) performing Stevie Wright’s classic Australian hit Evie Parts I, II and III.

To ensure that maximum money is raised, the event organisers are engaging suppliers to either work free of charge or at cost. All those including the bands, managements, promoters and publicists, web designers and hosts involved in staging this event are donating their time free of charge.

The income expenditure analysis will be published straight after the concert on this website, & via a press release and in print media. The net proceeds from the event will be distributed to AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS, OXFAM/COMMUNITY AID ABROAD, UNICEF, and CARE AUSTRALIA charity organizations.

We urge Sydneysiders to support this event and our fellow citizens of the world.