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Australia
Former cattle ranch, Queensland
Tvind was 'run out of town'.
Tvind is reported to have
owned
a cattle ranch in Queensland, Australia in around 1987.
A Tvind Alert reader reports:
She [a Teachers Group member] told me that when her son was very little - so, let us say, at least fifteen years ago - she was in Queensland and helping to run a cattle farm for Tvind.
The object of this was ostensibly to provide cheap meat for the starving Africans. Queensland is renowned for being right-wing and, in her own words, "they ran us out of town". It may be interesting to find out exactly what annoyed the authorites at the time. I looked up the Queensland newspaper archives on the internet and it may be possible that they cover this period but all the sites I found were subscription sites. It was after this debacle that they discovered soya which laid the basis for their restaurants in Botswana.
The ranch was also mentioned in 1993 by Anne Ellingsen of the Norwegian
movement against Tvind (more)
and also in a recent memo by a senior NGO worker (more).
Henning Bjornlund
Henning
Bjornlund, the former Tvind Financial Director, defected in 1989 and
was traced in 1995 by the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet to Adelaide,
Australia.
Danish-born Bjornlund was the alleged 'financial mastermind' of Tvind in 1970-1989 and chief architect of its expansion into profit-making real estate. Bjornlund is reported to have conceived the idea of buying huge commercial landholdings in the Caribbean, central and south America with the public money raised by Tvind.
Bjornlund left Denmark mysteriously in 1989, reportedly with a 'golden handshake' of $100,000 and resettled in Australia where he is now, ironically, a research fellow in international property markets at the University of South Australia. It is not known if he is still in the Teachers Group but he is believed to still support Tvind.
In 1995 Bjornlund reportedly admitted to Ekstra Bladet that Tvind was 'all about profit' and boasted that "I bought all Tvinds plantations abroad and have represented Tvinds corporate finances, until I left the firm five years ago." Full article.
A reader of Tvind Alert has asked other visitors to write to the university vice chancellor, Denise Bradley, drawing attention to Bjornlund's past involvement with Tvind. Bjornlund does not disclose his 20 years with Tvind in his CV or web site. See Tvind Alert Forum (The Chat Room - Henning Bjornlund)
Ekstra
Bladet article from 1995
University
of South Australia, Adelaide
Henning
Bjornlund's web page
Letter
writing appeal: See Tvind Alert Forum
Former cattle ranch, Queensland
Tvind was 'run out of town'.
Tvind is reported to have
owned
a cattle ranch in Queensland, Australia in around 1987.
A Tvind Alert reader reports:
She [a Teachers Group member] told me that when her son was very little - so, let us say, at least fifteen years ago - she was in Queensland and helping to run a cattle farm for Tvind.
The object of this was ostensibly to provide cheap meat for the starving Africans. Queensland is renowned for being right-wing and, in her own words, "they ran us out of town". It may be interesting to find out exactly what annoyed the authorites at the time. I looked up the Queensland newspaper archives on the internet and it may be possible that they cover this period but all the sites I found were subscription sites. It was after this debacle that they discovered soya which laid the basis for their restaurants in Botswana.
The ranch was also mentioned in 1993 by Anne Ellingsen of the Norwegian
movement against Tvind (more)
and also in a recent memo by a senior NGO worker (more).
Henning Bjornlund
Henning
Bjornlund, the former Tvind Financial Director, defected in 1989 and
was traced in 1995 by the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet to Adelaide,
Australia.
Danish-born Bjornlund was the alleged 'financial mastermind' of Tvind in 1970-1989 and chief architect of its expansion into profit-making real estate. Bjornlund is reported to have conceived the idea of buying huge commercial landholdings in the Caribbean, central and south America with the public money raised by Tvind.
Bjornlund left Denmark mysteriously in 1989, reportedly with a 'golden handshake' of $100,000 and resettled in Australia where he is now, ironically, a research fellow in international property markets at the University of South Australia. It is not known if he is still in the Teachers Group but he is believed to still support Tvind.
In 1995 Bjornlund reportedly admitted to Ekstra Bladet that Tvind was 'all about profit' and boasted that "I bought all Tvinds plantations abroad and have represented Tvinds corporate finances, until I left the firm five years ago." Full article.
A reader of Tvind Alert has asked other visitors to write to the university vice chancellor, Denise Bradley, drawing attention to Bjornlund's past involvement with Tvind. Bjornlund does not disclose his 20 years with Tvind in his CV or web site. See Tvind Alert Forum (The Chat Room - Henning Bjornlund)
Ekstra
Bladet article from 1995
University
of South Australia, Adelaide
Henning
Bjornlund's web page
Letter
writing appeal: See Tvind Alert Forum
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