I loved the bit in the AFR article about how Dixon told his kids he was giving his "vast fortune" (the $60M) away to a charitable trust:
"I said to Jessica and Ben, 'I'm going to do this' and they said, 'Go for it, Dad' and there was not a discussion about it. It's a huge amount of money and it would have been theirs. It's one thing I feel very proud about."
Hmmm. No discussion at all about how if they give that money away it becomes a $60M TAX DEDUCTION and that the Dixon family trusts will probably never pay tax again? Riiiiiiight. Just makes you feel so warm and fuzzy about the bloke, doesn't it? Makes you even believe he's just a poor, misunderstood, knockabout guy.
And I'm really Julia Gillard.
