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FORMER LIBERAL MP STUART ROBERT AND JOHN MARGERISON (IMAGES: AAP, JOHN MARGERISON PHILANTHROPY
What is it about former Scott Morrison cabinet minister Stuart Robert that keeps him constantly in the spotlight?
Now it’s Brother Stuey’s little mate, John Margerison, who has created an air of, let’s say, intrigue after his decision to scarper from his luxury Gold Coast home to parts unknown just as his attendance was required at a parliamentary inquiry into Robert’s dealings with a consulting company once part-owned by Margerison, Synergy 360.
There are sensational claims that the company had plotted ways to back-channel funds to Robert for assistance he might provide from his former position in government. Robert has strenuously denied the allegations. What a pity Margerison is not around to shed light on what happened. What a pity Margerison is not around to shed light on what happened. NDIS Minister Bill Shorten today called Margerison’s move a “truly remarkable development” and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called for an explanation into how it occurred.
The first thing to know about Margerison is that he is a man of immense self-belief. The Gold Coast entrepreneur says so himself. He told UK publication Business Matters: “I have come to understand that if you truly believe in something, it can become a reality. This lesson has been the key to unlocking my full potential and achieving success in both my personal and professional life.”
Margerison offered this career advice to budding entrepreneurs in May — just as the dark clouds were building over his relationship with Robert.
It’s no accident that Margerison sounds like a walking, talking motivational book. He has nominated the legend of the self-belief industry and celebrated motivational speaker Tony Robbins as his ultimate role model. Margerison says Robbins’ mass-selling books have filled him with the “tools for achieving my own goals and aspirations”.
The two have evidently grown close — close enough for Margerison to have Robbins along as his “wingman” for the glittering night when in front of 400 people Margersion proposed marriage to his “soul mate”, the owner of an American real estate group. Crikey is lucky enough to have a Facebook record of the night, which includes photographs of the fiancée’s sparkling ring and a jubilant Robbins, with arms raised, as Margerison kneels to pop the question. (Crikeyunderstands the marriage ultimately did not go ahead.)
Nevertheless, success is the name of the Margerison game. Like his idol Robbins, Margerison boasts of building massive corporate wealth and the joy of philanthropy which that brings. It’s a positive story of a fortune made and shared that everyone can feel good about — in particular Margerison’s Gold Coast pal Robert, who has his own success and belief story as a leading Pentecostal politician.
Margerison was born in England. He came to Australia as a boy and he went on to do a degree in business commerce at Bond university on the Gold Coast. He discovered his entrepreneurial spirit straightaway, as well as a self-professed acumen for mathematical solutions which, he says, can accurately predict market changes and drive his strategic investment decisions.
His name appears in the Paradise Papers, a trove of documents leaked in 2017 detailing tax haven investments for the global rich. (It is not illegal to use tax havens to minimise tax.) As Crikey has documented, Margerison has been a political fundraiser for Robert in his former seat of Fadden. He also set up the Australian Ibero-American Business Council, a networking body which gave investors and business people a forum to mingle with politicians. The council was Robert’s brainchild.
The business relationship between the entrepreneur and the politician appears to have taken off in March 2018, with Robert then in political exile on the Coalition backbench under Malcolm Turnbull. As a mere local member, the MP had time on his hands. Enter Margerison.
ASIC documents show that Margerison set up a venture called JM National Property Pty Ltd, and was joined by Robert in March 2018. Robert remained a director for close to six months until his ministerial career was resuscitated by his friend Morrison when Morrison became prime minister in August 2018.
But what a time it was. Robert inserted JM National Property into the heart of his financial affairs, as a trustee company for another trust which held property and shares for Robert and his family. In August 2018, JM National Property took a 50% stake in Cryo Australia, a Brisbane-based franchise group specialising in cryotherapy.
At the same time, Margerison went from strength to strength in a health services business called DJ Health, part of the wider DJ Group which had a property and a capital arm. Margerison was a director and secretary of DJ Health, the engine room for several businesses involved in disability services.
ASIC documents show that Margerison continued to expand into the disability services sector with businesses registered at the address of Sean Beasley Accountants in Robina on the Gold Coast. (This was the same address as the Australian Ibero-American Business Council.) His financial interests in one disability services company overlapped with a period when Robert was minister in charge of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Margerison has had a habit of being where the money and power lie but for all that has proved remarkably elusive when it comes to the media. Crikey has made several fruitless attempts to contact him previously. Now he is, apparently, no longer in the jurisdiction; his own lawyer is reportedly unsure of where he might be.
Margerison has left the building. He is said to have severed all ties with Australia, taking his unshakeable self-belief, personal growth plan and — no doubt — his well-thumbed collection of Robbins’ motivational books with him.
David Hardaker
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David Hardaker has an extensive career as a journalist and broadcaster, primarily at the ABC where he worked on flagship programs such as Four Corners, 7.30, Foreign Correspondent, AM and PM. He spent eight years reporting in the Middle East and can speak Arabic.
Who is Stuart Robert’s mate John Margerison? And why did he leave the country?
Friends in deed and friends indeed: the former Coalition cabinet minister and the Gold Coast self-believing entrepreneur.DAVID HARDAKER
JUL 25, 2023
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FORMER LIBERAL MP STUART ROBERT AND JOHN MARGERISON (IMAGES: AAP, JOHN MARGERISON PHILANTHROPY
What is it about former Scott Morrison cabinet minister Stuart Robert that keeps him constantly in the spotlight?
Now it’s Brother Stuey’s little mate, John Margerison, who has created an air of, let’s say, intrigue after his decision to scarper from his luxury Gold Coast home to parts unknown just as his attendance was required at a parliamentary inquiry into Robert’s dealings with a consulting company once part-owned by Margerison, Synergy 360.
There are sensational claims that the company had plotted ways to back-channel funds to Robert for assistance he might provide from his former position in government. Robert has strenuously denied the allegations. What a pity Margerison is not around to shed light on what happened. What a pity Margerison is not around to shed light on what happened. NDIS Minister Bill Shorten today called Margerison’s move a “truly remarkable development” and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called for an explanation into how it occurred.
The first thing to know about Margerison is that he is a man of immense self-belief. The Gold Coast entrepreneur says so himself. He told UK publication Business Matters: “I have come to understand that if you truly believe in something, it can become a reality. This lesson has been the key to unlocking my full potential and achieving success in both my personal and professional life.”
Margerison offered this career advice to budding entrepreneurs in May — just as the dark clouds were building over his relationship with Robert.
It’s no accident that Margerison sounds like a walking, talking motivational book. He has nominated the legend of the self-belief industry and celebrated motivational speaker Tony Robbins as his ultimate role model. Margerison says Robbins’ mass-selling books have filled him with the “tools for achieving my own goals and aspirations”.
The two have evidently grown close — close enough for Margerison to have Robbins along as his “wingman” for the glittering night when in front of 400 people Margersion proposed marriage to his “soul mate”, the owner of an American real estate group. Crikey is lucky enough to have a Facebook record of the night, which includes photographs of the fiancée’s sparkling ring and a jubilant Robbins, with arms raised, as Margerison kneels to pop the question. (Crikeyunderstands the marriage ultimately did not go ahead.)
Nevertheless, success is the name of the Margerison game. Like his idol Robbins, Margerison boasts of building massive corporate wealth and the joy of philanthropy which that brings. It’s a positive story of a fortune made and shared that everyone can feel good about — in particular Margerison’s Gold Coast pal Robert, who has his own success and belief story as a leading Pentecostal politician.
Margerison was born in England. He came to Australia as a boy and he went on to do a degree in business commerce at Bond university on the Gold Coast. He discovered his entrepreneurial spirit straightaway, as well as a self-professed acumen for mathematical solutions which, he says, can accurately predict market changes and drive his strategic investment decisions.
His name appears in the Paradise Papers, a trove of documents leaked in 2017 detailing tax haven investments for the global rich. (It is not illegal to use tax havens to minimise tax.) As Crikey has documented, Margerison has been a political fundraiser for Robert in his former seat of Fadden. He also set up the Australian Ibero-American Business Council, a networking body which gave investors and business people a forum to mingle with politicians. The council was Robert’s brainchild.
The business relationship between the entrepreneur and the politician appears to have taken off in March 2018, with Robert then in political exile on the Coalition backbench under Malcolm Turnbull. As a mere local member, the MP had time on his hands. Enter Margerison.
ASIC documents show that Margerison set up a venture called JM National Property Pty Ltd, and was joined by Robert in March 2018. Robert remained a director for close to six months until his ministerial career was resuscitated by his friend Morrison when Morrison became prime minister in August 2018.
But what a time it was. Robert inserted JM National Property into the heart of his financial affairs, as a trustee company for another trust which held property and shares for Robert and his family. In August 2018, JM National Property took a 50% stake in Cryo Australia, a Brisbane-based franchise group specialising in cryotherapy.
At the same time, Margerison went from strength to strength in a health services business called DJ Health, part of the wider DJ Group which had a property and a capital arm. Margerison was a director and secretary of DJ Health, the engine room for several businesses involved in disability services.
ASIC documents show that Margerison continued to expand into the disability services sector with businesses registered at the address of Sean Beasley Accountants in Robina on the Gold Coast. (This was the same address as the Australian Ibero-American Business Council.) His financial interests in one disability services company overlapped with a period when Robert was minister in charge of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Margerison has had a habit of being where the money and power lie but for all that has proved remarkably elusive when it comes to the media. Crikey has made several fruitless attempts to contact him previously. Now he is, apparently, no longer in the jurisdiction; his own lawyer is reportedly unsure of where he might be.
Margerison has left the building. He is said to have severed all ties with Australia, taking his unshakeable self-belief, personal growth plan and — no doubt — his well-thumbed collection of Robbins’ motivational books with him.
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David Hardaker
INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR @D_HARDAKER
David Hardaker has an extensive career as a journalist and broadcaster, primarily at the ABC where he worked on flagship programs such as Four Corners, 7.30, Foreign Correspondent, AM and PM. He spent eight years reporting in the Middle East and can speak Arabic.
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was that the muppet who suddenly disappeared when talk of a senate committee appearance was being canvassed?
probably ended up in the same place perretets brother vanished to .... they do like to play hide and seek these 'master of the universe' conservative types
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So, another Pommy grifter gets a Grifter's degree from Pommy Grifter Bond's "University".Crikey / Opinion / Politics
Who is Stuart Robert’s mate John Margerison? And why did he leave the country?
Friends in deed and friends indeed: the former Coalition cabinet minister and the Gold Coast self-believing entrepreneur.
DAVID HARDAKER
JUL 25, 2023
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FORMER LIBERAL MP STUART ROBERT AND JOHN MARGERISON (IMAGES: AAP, JOHN MARGERISON PHILANTHROPY
What is it about former Scott Morrison cabinet minister Stuart Robert that keeps him constantly in the spotlight?
Now it’s Brother Stuey’s little mate, John Margerison, who has created an air of, let’s say, intrigue after his decision to scarper from his luxury Gold Coast home to parts unknown just as his attendance was required at a parliamentary inquiry into Robert’s dealings with a consulting company once part-owned by Margerison, Synergy 360.
There are sensational claims that the company had plotted ways to back-channel funds to Robert for assistance he might provide from his former position in government. Robert has strenuously denied the allegations. What a pity Margerison is not around to shed light on what happened. What a pity Margerison is not around to shed light on what happened. NDIS Minister Bill Shorten today called Margerison’s move a “truly remarkable development” and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called for an explanation into how it occurred.
The first thing to know about Margerison is that he is a man of immense self-belief. The Gold Coast entrepreneur says so himself. He told UK publication Business Matters: “I have come to understand that if you truly believe in something, it can become a reality. This lesson has been the key to unlocking my full potential and achieving success in both my personal and professional life.”
Margerison offered this career advice to budding entrepreneurs in May — just as the dark clouds were building over his relationship with Robert.
It’s no accident that Margerison sounds like a walking, talking motivational book. He has nominated the legend of the self-belief industry and celebrated motivational speaker Tony Robbins as his ultimate role model. Margerison says Robbins’ mass-selling books have filled him with the “tools for achieving my own goals and aspirations”.
The two have evidently grown close — close enough for Margerison to have Robbins along as his “wingman” for the glittering night when in front of 400 people Margersion proposed marriage to his “soul mate”, the owner of an American real estate group. Crikey is lucky enough to have a Facebook record of the night, which includes photographs of the fiancée’s sparkling ring and a jubilant Robbins, with arms raised, as Margerison kneels to pop the question. (Crikeyunderstands the marriage ultimately did not go ahead.)
Nevertheless, success is the name of the Margerison game. Like his idol Robbins, Margerison boasts of building massive corporate wealth and the joy of philanthropy which that brings. It’s a positive story of a fortune made and shared that everyone can feel good about — in particular Margerison’s Gold Coast pal Robert, who has his own success and belief story as a leading Pentecostal politician.
Margerison was born in England. He came to Australia as a boy and he went on to do a degree in business commerce at Bond university on the Gold Coast. He discovered his entrepreneurial spirit straightaway, as well as a self-professed acumen for mathematical solutions which, he says, can accurately predict market changes and drive his strategic investment decisions.
His name appears in the Paradise Papers, a trove of documents leaked in 2017 detailing tax haven investments for the global rich. (It is not illegal to use tax havens to minimise tax.) As Crikey has documented, Margerison has been a political fundraiser for Robert in his former seat of Fadden. He also set up the Australian Ibero-American Business Council, a networking body which gave investors and business people a forum to mingle with politicians. The council was Robert’s brainchild.
The business relationship between the entrepreneur and the politician appears to have taken off in March 2018, with Robert then in political exile on the Coalition backbench under Malcolm Turnbull. As a mere local member, the MP had time on his hands. Enter Margerison.
ASIC documents show that Margerison set up a venture called JM National Property Pty Ltd, and was joined by Robert in March 2018. Robert remained a director for close to six months until his ministerial career was resuscitated by his friend Morrison when Morrison became prime minister in August 2018.
But what a time it was. Robert inserted JM National Property into the heart of his financial affairs, as a trustee company for another trust which held property and shares for Robert and his family. In August 2018, JM National Property took a 50% stake in Cryo Australia, a Brisbane-based franchise group specialising in cryotherapy.
At the same time, Margerison went from strength to strength in a health services business called DJ Health, part of the wider DJ Group which had a property and a capital arm. Margerison was a director and secretary of DJ Health, the engine room for several businesses involved in disability services.
ASIC documents show that Margerison continued to expand into the disability services sector with businesses registered at the address of Sean Beasley Accountants in Robina on the Gold Coast. (This was the same address as the Australian Ibero-American Business Council.) His financial interests in one disability services company overlapped with a period when Robert was minister in charge of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Margerison has had a habit of being where the money and power lie but for all that has proved remarkably elusive when it comes to the media. Crikey has made several fruitless attempts to contact him previously. Now he is, apparently, no longer in the jurisdiction; his own lawyer is reportedly unsure of where he might be.
Margerison has left the building. He is said to have severed all ties with Australia, taking his unshakeable self-belief, personal growth plan and — no doubt — his well-thumbed collection of Robbins’ motivational books with him.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Hardaker
INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR @D_HARDAKER
David Hardaker has an extensive career as a journalist and broadcaster, primarily at the ABC where he worked on flagship programs such as Four Corners, 7.30, Foreign Correspondent, AM and PM. He spent eight years reporting in the Middle East and can speak Arabic.
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i do hope scott morrison gets treated really harshly and put to trial for okaying robodebt. he has blood on his hands and he'll never accept any accountability unless it's forced onto him.
i hope this kills his torrid party
i hope this kills his torrid party
whilst the preacher man is the target, robodebt was a cabinet decision ... they are all implicated
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They hooked him up with a job in WA at some Hotels authority or some shit
Stuart Robert cooked. Morrison, on the grill. Dutton about to be trussed and basted.
hmmmmm ..... oneill mentioned the NACC when responding to a question on the home affairs issue
Labor not standing in Warrandyte.
Finally we'll have an MP who takes a stand on issues we care about, like checks notes.... 'WOKE CRAP in our schools.'
Finally we'll have an MP who takes a stand on issues we care about, like checks notes.... 'WOKE CRAP in our schools.'
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How awesome will it be when that finally gets out, so much egg on so many faces
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NSW Lib Taylor Martin proving he’s got what it apparently takes these days to be a Liberal politician.
FMD I know Labor has had some dodgy skeletons in their closet over the years but they are pure as the driven snow these days compared to these LNP effwits.
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FMD I know Labor has had some dodgy skeletons in their closet over the years but they are pure as the driven snow these days compared to these LNP effwits.
Revealed: The ‘demeaning, degrading and highly abusive’ texts a NSW politician sent to a federal MP
Text messages where NSW MP Taylor Martin describes Lucy Wicks as a “dumb ****”, a “pig” and a “f---wit” are being investigated by the Liberal Party.
Politician, media or sports figure?How awesome will it be when that finally gets out, so much egg on so many faces
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Try political staffer.
One who has already been in trouble?
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The person is someone who cannot be named for legal reasons under Qld legislation. So let's not go there in this thread although there is a thread in the Crimes forum on a related matter that is worth reading.
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Left leaning teachers. It’s not new folks. Righties would be the first complaining if their kids didn’t get a fair go in school
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The right-leaning teachers don't seem to raise an eyebrow. Some of the things teachers have said to our kids or friends kids are just bizarre. Stuff about immigration, money, religion, all sorts.
We just tell them what is what and they deal with the weirdo teachers themselves usually.
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And lookie who's holidaying there.
would you want to publicly out yourself as an ex advisor to doug anthony
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Scomo Said he himself want a visionary politician
Dutton doesn’t eve have the vision to even say that
Dutton doesn’t eve have the vision to even say that
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