Australia: Greenpeace heads into red as costs bite

Judging from accounts for calendar-year 2008, the eco-political concern will need to pay attention to its soaring wages, salaries and superannuation bill, which jumped 31 per cent and swallowed up $7.6 million.

The personnel costs take a decent chunk of money raised from Greenpeace's supporter base, which, over time, has been falling alarmingly. Six years ago the outfit had nearly 130,000 supporters but the latest accounts said the base was "approximately" 100,000.
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...The donations were swallowed up by what Greenpeace described as "fund-raising expenditure" of $7.2 million, "campaigning expenditure" of $11.5 million and "organisational support" at $1.9 million.
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Travel looked to have soaked up a pretty penny, with Greenpeace personnel visiting Tokyo, Niue, Pohnpei, South Korea, Poland and Papua New Guinea, while Greenpeace vessel MV Esperanza toured seven east-coast Australian cities and treated more than 5000 visitors to its take on climate change.

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