{"id":10085,"date":"2011-04-14T09:54:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=10085"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:15:27","slug":"anz-lends-support-to-disaster-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2011\/04\/14\/anz-lends-support-to-disaster-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"ANZ Lends Support to Disaster Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>ANZ, in conjunction with Sydney&#8217;s Star City Casino, has rallied support from the entertainment community to put on a benefit concert for victims of the recent natural disasters.<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The Rock and Rebuild charity concert will be held on Sunday, 1 May at the Lyric Theatre Star City, headlined by international political activist and pop musician, <strong>Sir Bob Geldof<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The group says that 100% of the income from ticket sales will be donated to both the Queensland Premier&#8217;s Disaster Relief Fund and The Australian Red Cross to help support communities affected by disasters in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Bob was recently in Australia to help with the launch of the OnePath brand to financial advisers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To see the extent to which people&#8217;s lives have been devastated is heart-wrenching,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have experienced the generosity and compassion of the people of Australia, New Zealand and Japan first hand, so it&#8217;s quite humbling to be invited to lead the Rock and Rebuild effort, and give some support to those nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Long after the cameras shift their focus the people will still be rebuilding their lives. It&#8217;s important that we keep them in our minds and continue to lend a hand,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sir\u00a0Bob will be joined on stage by local artists <strong>Jon Stevens<\/strong> and <strong>Danielle Spencer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>ANZ and its wealth brand OnePath have encouraged advisers to get behind the cause, saying the event reflects ANZ&#8217;s commitment to the communities it operates in.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com.au\/Bob-Geldof-tickets\/artist\/735158?camefrom=[=CAMEFROM=]&amp;brand=tm&amp;tm_link=tm_music_rc_image1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticketmaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANZ, in conjunction with Sydney&#8217;s Star City Casino, has rallied support from the entertainment community to put on a benefit concert for victims of the recent natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-company-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}