2013 Annual Information Statement The Waubra Foundation Section A: Charity Information

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1 The Waubra Foundation Section A: Charity Information 1. What is your charity's Australian Business Number (ABN)? What is your charity's legal name? The Waubra Foundation 3. Are there any other names your charity is known by (such as a trading name)? 4. What is your charity's address? Postal address PO Box 7112 BANYULE VIC 384 Business address Level Collins Street MELBOURNE VIC 3 susan@waubrafoundation.org.au 5. What is your charity's contact and address for service? Contact Title Family name Given name Other given name Mrs Ghent Susan Jean Date of birth 21/5/1944 Daytime number Mobile number Address for service susan@waubrafoundation.org.au Postal PO Box 7112 BANYULE VIC Does your charity have a financial year ending 3 June? Yes On what date does your financial year end? Page 1 of 5

2 3/6 7. Based on your revenue for the last financial year, what is your charity size? Small: Revenue less than $25, 8. What are the charitable purposes of your charity? Health promotion charity Other purposes * Alleviating the distress of and adverse health impacts upon mainly rural residents by advocating, with our gathered evidence, independent multidisciplinary research into the source and nature of environmental noise from industrial machinery, its transmission and impacts on the health of neighbours Advancing research knowledge in the crossover disciplines of sound, vibration and health Promoting and protecting the human rights of families exposed to industrial noise and vibration Advancing public knowledge about the issues 9. If your charity s charitable purpose is the advancement of religion, do you meet the criteria of a basic religious charity', as set out in the Australian Charities and t-forprofits Commission Act 212 (ACNC Act)? 1. Is your charity part of a reporting group that has been approved by the ACNC? Section B: Activities 11. Has your charity conducted any activities in the last financial year? Yes 12. Main activity: Other activity General activities: Other Other activity: Collecting & analysing relevant old and new field and published research evidence; and promoting research into the causes of adverse health impacts from environmental sound and vibration energy, with a particular focus on frequencies below 2 Hz. Much is already known about the adverse health impacts of acute and chronic exposure to infrasound and low frequency noise, but has been forgotten or ignored, only to be rediscovered by those who do not have anything to hide. Crucial developments have included finding relevant old research such as the Dr Neil Kelley/NASA body of work from the 198 s presented to the American Wind Energy Association conference in 1987 which demonstrated the direct causation of annoyance symptoms from wind turbine generated infrasound and low frequency noise; expansion of the research and clinical evidence of vibroacoustic disease outside Portugal (Taiwan & German); and increasing awareness of the significant body of research relating to vestibular disor 13. Describe how your charity pursued its charitable purposes in the last financial year: Page 2 of 5

3 We are in regular communication with other similar organisations and scientific researchers around the world. We are regularly approached by residents suffering serious & cruel health problems. We write submissions to government inquiries. When invited and if possible, members of the Foundation have appeared at planning panel hearings and community information meetings relating to new wind project applications. We have developed a high quality website to bring together all relevant information. All information is freely available to the general public. There is no other website in the world offering this information relating specifically to environmental noise and health. We encourage relevant departments of health, noise pollution regulation and planning to investigate reported problems, and to develop better guidelines to protect the health of the public. We support calls for governments to investigate those developments which are non-compliant with their planning approvals or noise pollution regulations. The relatively small amount of donations received in nearly four years operation has come from rural residents as far as we can tell and sometimes are made in response to a direct call for support by the Foundation for a particular purpose. The Foundation s officers operate entirely pro bono from their homes. 14. Is your charity going to change the way it pursues its charitable purposes in the next financial year? What changes are planned? 15. Who was helped by your charity s activities in the last financial year? Children Elderly people People at risk of homelessness/the homeless People with disabilities People with Chronic or terminal illness Others not listed Other beneficiaries your charity helped last financial year: Rural residents from around Australia and elsewhere internationally who are faced with the prospect of environmental noise harming their health and wellbeing at home and other locations including workplaces, farms, schools, a prison, a monastery. Rural residents who are already suffering serious & cruel health problems and facing abandonment of their homes as they cannot endure the constant pressure of noise and vibration inside their homes, especially at night. Sleep disturbance is the most common reported adverse health event around the world in residents exposed to intrusive night time environmental low frequency noise pollution, and is consistent with the disease Environmental Sleep Disorder as described in the World Health Organisation s Report Night ise Guidelines for Europe. The WHO 29 Report states: Environmental Sleep Disorder (of which noise-induced sleep disturbance is an example) is a sleep disturbance due to a disturbing environmental factor that causes a com Page 3 of 5

4 Section C: Resources and operating locations 16. What is the number of paid employees and unpaid volunteers who worked for your charity during the last pay period of your last financial year? Full time employees Part time employees Volunteers Indicate where your charity operated during the last financial year. NSW QLD SA TAS VIC WA Please list the relevant countries Section D: Reporting and regulatory obligations (This section is optional) 18. Did you have a corporate or financial reporting obligation to a Commonwealth department or agency over the last financial year? Commonwealth department or agency name and relevant program 19. Apart from any corporate reporting obligation you may have to a state or territory regulator (under associated incorporations or cooperatives legislation), did you report to any state or territory department or agency over the last financial year? Please indicate which state or territory you had non-corporate reporting obligations to. 2. If you had corporate or financial reporting obligations to a Commonwealth, state or territory department or agency in the last financial year, how many hours do you estimate your charity spent completing these reporting obligations over the last 12-month period? Approximate hours spent reporting by paid staff Approximate hours spent reporting by unpaid volunteers Total hours spent reporting Upload your financial report for the last financial year. It is optional for all charities to submit a financial report for the 213 financial year. For the 214 financial year onwards, your charity's size will determine if you are required to provide financial reports. Page 4 of 5

5 Section E: Declaration It is a serious offence to give false or misleading information. Penalties may be imposed. 21. Who is the person signing this declaration? Title Family Name Given Name Other Given Name 22. Phone number Mrs Ghent Susan Jean Business hours Mobile Number 23. Address susan@waubrafoundation.or g.au 24. Position Held Secretary ABOUT THIS STATEMENT An incomplete statement may delay processing and we may ask you to complete a new statement. Privacy The Australian Charities and t-for-profits Commission (ACNC) is required to handle infomration we collect in accordance with the Australian Charities and t-for-profits Commission Act 212 (the ACNC Act) and the Privacy Act For more information about our informationhandling policies please see acnc.gov.au or contact us. The ACNC is authorised by The ACNC Act to collect the information requested in this statement. We may use information we collect to help us administer The ACNC Act, update our records about your organisation, maintain the ACNC Register or provide information to other government agencies when authorised to do so. 25. Declaration Responsible person' has the same meaning as 'responsible entity' under s.25-3 of the ACNC Act. A responsible person is a person (or in some limited cases an organisation) responsible for directing a charity, and who is a member of the charity's governing body (including directors or committee members) or who is a trustee (including insolvency trustees or administrators). You selected the: Authorised person's declaration We accept that you are authorised to sign on behalf of the charity if you: are a responsible person of the charity, or hold a position in the charity which gives you authority to do so. I declare that: I am authorised to sign on behalf of the charity whose ABN appears on this form about the contents of this form, and the information given on this form and any attached document is true and correct. Date submitted: 31/3/214 Page 5 of 5