However, she said they would need to run everything by the US office and legal team before deciding who should speak to me and how they would approach it.
This trend persisted for the duration of my investigation. When I arrived, I was met with big smiles and happy energy. To be fair, this is an organisation receiving a lot of bad press. A certain degree of caution is understandable. I had the women respond to each of the allegations above. The rest of my investigation took me through ceremonies and events, government agencies, university representatives, Golden Key employees, student members and even middle-of-the-night phone calls to the US.
I am not a fan of ceremonies, nor the unpleasant power they have to dilate time through methodically applied boredom. No time was wasted on secret handshakes or strange induction rites. There were no hooded figures lurking ominously in the background. No virgin sacrifices were made, no goblets of blood passed around and not a single ego was salaciously stroked not in my line of sight anyway.
The most pretentious thing there was a horde of tiny branded cupcakes. On the train ride home from the ceremony, I browsed through the top search results for the organisation. Unsourced controversial information will be removed and replaced with equally unsourced praise. Then another contributor will put their thing down, flip it and reverse it.
This exchange has been cycling back and forth since and editors from both sides of the battle have been flagged as having potential conflicts of interest.
An editor going by the username AHouska removed all reference to the controversy surrounding the society. A conflict of interest warning was issued and the editing attempt reversed. Whatever you may think of Wikipedia, the site has a strict policy against people with a vested interest — say employees of a company — having involvement in the creation of what is intended to be independent, non-biased reference material. We have a marketing employee and I assume they would be in there trying to make sure everything is correct.
While many of her edits were redacted, AHouska was successful in removing accusations of unreasonably high expenditure on corporate wages and failure to give any kind of return on investment to members.
While this was upheld due to a lack of evidence for the allegations, it reflects the most commonly raised concern among Golden Key detractors. Golden Key boasts a membership base in the multi-millions. They have to apply and put in the effort to be selected. I asked the organisation for a breakdown of where the membership money goes. I also requested detailed employee expenses so I could compare this with other non-profit organisations. Members are entitled to know how a charity is acting and using its resources finances and any assets on their behalf.
The organisation stalled on this, citing delays due to waiting on auditors who were needed to ensure the information was displayed accurately for the general public.
What I received, when the data was finally sent through, was a pre-made pie chart which buried employee expenses in other categories. Unfortunately we are not able to provide a breakdown per capita due to breach of employee confidentiality. We need to abide by the Privacy Act. We have staff employed at any given time supporting more than , members. That equates to 1 staff member for every 50, to 63, members. As far as sumptuous holidays go, Heslehurst says she wishes that was a perk of the job.
They are independently audited and I could find no connection between the auditor and Golden Key or any of its board of directors. Their financial information is vague but they did provide explanations when asked. Had such an event taken place, by law, it would have to be published on the ACNC website. A thorough search of Austlii a source for Australian legal matters revealed no legal action of any kind relating to Golden Key.
There is no documented reason to suspect Golden Key of financial fraud. Golden Key does have a hierarchical structure but it does not match the definition of a pyramid scheme outlined in the Australian Competition and Consumer Act We celebrate and support collegiate scholars around the world and we want you to be part of it.
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