Craig Manners
About Craig Manners
Born in 1965 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia into a family with a distinguished history spanning six generations of Manners in Australia, having branched out from the Manners family in the United Kingdom, whose rich history includes a family member arriving in England as a flag-bearer with William the Conqueror in 1066.
The family history in the UK includes the Duke of Rutland Manners of Belvoir Castle, as well as Charles Manners-Sutton, a bishop in the Church of England who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828. In 1819, he presided over the christening of the future Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace. He died at Lambeth on 21 July 1828, and was buried on 29 July at Addington, in a family vault.[9] His son was the Speaker of the House of Commons, see Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury from 1817-1835.
Craig’s Australian forebears arrived in Melbourne and moved with the gold discoveries to Ballarat, Bendigo, Kanowna and then into Kalgoorlie in 1893. Craig moved from Kalgoorlie to Perth in 1993, then from Perth to Melbourne in 1997 to assist WA investment bank Hartley Poyntons Limited to establish a Melbourne branch.
Craig is married with five children, and two grandchildren, (plus a dog named Rex and a black cat named Shadow).
Recent Background:
Current Work: Currently employed as the CEO of 56-year-old Melbourne based community social services agency, Temcare (www.Temcare.org.au)
Past Career: Craig previously worked as a Senior Client Advisor for financial services, investment banking and investment management firms including HSBC Saw James Capel Ltd, Hartley Poynton Ltd, BT Australia Ltd and D&D Tolhurst Ltd.
Work Summary: Varied work experiences ranging from stacking shelves at Bunnings in Kalgoorlie, drillers offsider and then approximately 37 years’ experience within various areas of financial markets and the mining and exploration industry, including:
Investment advisor; broker of mining tenements; capital raising for publicly listed exploration and mining companies; non-executive director of ASX listed gold exploration and venture capital company; managing mining supply and drilling equipment supply companies in the W.A. Goldfields; mineral exploration; has visited numerous mining and exploration projects throughout Australia, Asia and Africa.
Craig was also involved in start-up development and funding in the early days of the internet and technology sector; investment analysis; portfolio management; financial advice; early-stage venture capital.
As a start-up entrepreneur in 1999/2000 was involved in many start-up ventures, successfully exiting his first co-founded start-up in March 1999.
Other interests: Craig has travelled extensively in Asia, North, Central and South America, Europe and Africa and has lived in Africa, founding a community development charity in 2007 in Malawi which continues to develop a primary and secondary school focused on providing educational opportunities for underprivileged children. (www.OrbusMinistries.org).
Private investor (since 2000); consultant and broker of mining and exploration assets and projects (www.MiningTenements.com, since 2006).
Education: Bachelor of Theology BTh. (ACT) and Diploma in Theology (Dip. Th) from the Presbyterian Theological College in Box Hill graduating in 2008. Graduate (Melbourne, 2002) of the Company Director's Diploma Course at the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD); Certificate in Financial Markets (SIA/FINSIA) with two W.A. State subject awards (Stockbrokers Administrative Procedures and Futures Markets); and short courses of study in geology and drill management at the W.A. School of Mines in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. In July 2020 completed the five-week Antler Launch Academy course for the development of start-up ventures.
Recent Previous Boards:
Church and Community Involvement:
Photography: Craig Manners has had photos published in magazines, books, websites, brochures and on five magazine covers, including an airline in-flight magazine for Malawi Airlines in 2012.
Craig’s photos are available for various uses for a donation of $50 per use to the African charity Craig founded in 2007 called Orbus and payable here along with an attribution as follows: "Photo by Craig Manners (www.CraigManners.com)"
Some of Craig’s photography is available on Unsplash where he has received over 30 million views to June 2024 https://unsplash.com/@craigmanners_com
Contact: Email
Socials:
Craig Manners | LinkedIn
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/craigmanners1
X.com/craigmanners1
From the 2016 Federal Election material: “Family First endorsed Senate Candidate for Victoria, Craig Manners (51), is self-employed, a proud Australian from a family who arrived in Melbourne six generations ago. One of Craig's grandfathers fought in World War 1, and the other in World War 2, to secure the freedoms we now enjoy in Australia, freedoms which are under imminent threat from the deceptively named “progressive” movement.” With a background in small business, investment, financial markets, venture capital and not-for-profit charities, plus some valuable experience in dealing with big-government heavy-handedness, misuse and abuse of power, and experience at managing his own family with balanced budgets and without long-term deficits, along with much community involvement through years of volunteering at sporting clubs, charities, school, church and community groups, both locally and in Africa, Mr. Manners is well prepared to represent his community in parliament.”
“Craig also has some front-line legal experience after spending five years relatively successfully defending himself from a heavy-handed and over-zealous government corporate regulator (ASIC) in 2005. The ASIC matter related to Craig's success (in 1999/2000) at rescuing and legitimately (Judge White) turning a $1.8m junior gold explorer around and building Adelong Capital Ltd into a $140m successful internet start-up incubator during the heady dot-com boom of 1999/2000.
ASIC were basically found to have misused State resources and power to bully and hinder Adelong and over-zealously pursue Mr. Manners, who exited the ordeal with "his integrity fully intact." (Barrister Peter Jones). It was revealed some years later that ASIC ignored insider calls to investigate alleged wrongdoing at CBA while focusing their resources on pursuing the Adelong case, a case which it turned out was not what they portrayed it to be. The reasons for choosing to pursue Mr. Manners and Adelong were thought to be personally motivated along the lines of religious/ideological lines and ease of access to his assets which were all in his own name. While overzealously overwhelming Mr. Manners, who was willing to settle and avoid a costly investigation, ASIC were ignoring serious and culturally imbedded corporate wrongdoing at the Commonwealth Bank which was then allowed to continue for more than a decade unhindered, causing the loss of millions of dollars of small investors hard-earned savings. ASIC had a duty to those individual Australians, but they chose to pursue something else for personal reasons. Source 1 and Source 2
Importantly ASIC were also discovered to have withheld vital evidence from Mr. Manner’s defense team, something which was only discovered long after the trial but which will come to light in due course. (To those inside ASIC/AFP who decided to withhold this evidence, you know who you are and all will be revealed.)
After five debilitating years, the fully informed (as opposed to the media's uninformed and biased "fake news" reporting) Judge Bill White's final words on the matter, on November 4th 2005, say all that needs to be said: "Mr. Manners, this has been a tortuous ordeal for you and your family. You are free to go." Judges do not say these sorts of things unless there is much more to the story than what is told by the prosecutor and reported in the media.”
It has been noted that had ASIC not been so over-zealous in wanting to make Craig Manners a scapegoat for the excesses of the internet boom, Adelong Capital Limited would probably have gone on to be a huge Australian tech success story. Craig's supposedly misleading enthusiasm for the internet looks very tame and mild compared to the reality 20 years later. His "misleading" enthusiasm was in hindsight extremely understated. Well done ASIC.
https://www.craigmanners.com/from-the-archives-craig-manners-8203senate-candidate-for-the-family-first-party-in-victoria-australian-federal-election-2nd-july-2016.html
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/familyfirstvic/pages/29/attachments/original/1466423766/FFP_2016_HTV_Aston-Chisholm-Deakin_-Menzies.pdf?1466423766
Born in 1965 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia into a family with a distinguished history spanning six generations of Manners in Australia, having branched out from the Manners family in the United Kingdom, whose rich history includes a family member arriving in England as a flag-bearer with William the Conqueror in 1066.
The family history in the UK includes the Duke of Rutland Manners of Belvoir Castle, as well as Charles Manners-Sutton, a bishop in the Church of England who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828. In 1819, he presided over the christening of the future Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace. He died at Lambeth on 21 July 1828, and was buried on 29 July at Addington, in a family vault.[9] His son was the Speaker of the House of Commons, see Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury from 1817-1835.
Craig’s Australian forebears arrived in Melbourne and moved with the gold discoveries to Ballarat, Bendigo, Kanowna and then into Kalgoorlie in 1893. Craig moved from Kalgoorlie to Perth in 1993, then from Perth to Melbourne in 1997 to assist WA investment bank Hartley Poyntons Limited to establish a Melbourne branch.
Craig is married with five children, and two grandchildren, (plus a dog named Rex and a black cat named Shadow).
Recent Background:
- Chief Executive Officer, Temcare
- Chief Executive Officer, Orbus Ministries Australia Inc.
- Director, Chanuk Nominees Pty Ltd ATF <The Fisherman’s Foundation.>
- Elder, South Yarra Presbyterian Church
- Emeritus Elder, Nansengwe Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP-Blantyre Synod). The Nansengwe Parish includes the Nansengwe, Chilaweni and Orbus congregations.
Current Work: Currently employed as the CEO of 56-year-old Melbourne based community social services agency, Temcare (www.Temcare.org.au)
Past Career: Craig previously worked as a Senior Client Advisor for financial services, investment banking and investment management firms including HSBC Saw James Capel Ltd, Hartley Poynton Ltd, BT Australia Ltd and D&D Tolhurst Ltd.
Work Summary: Varied work experiences ranging from stacking shelves at Bunnings in Kalgoorlie, drillers offsider and then approximately 37 years’ experience within various areas of financial markets and the mining and exploration industry, including:
Investment advisor; broker of mining tenements; capital raising for publicly listed exploration and mining companies; non-executive director of ASX listed gold exploration and venture capital company; managing mining supply and drilling equipment supply companies in the W.A. Goldfields; mineral exploration; has visited numerous mining and exploration projects throughout Australia, Asia and Africa.
Craig was also involved in start-up development and funding in the early days of the internet and technology sector; investment analysis; portfolio management; financial advice; early-stage venture capital.
As a start-up entrepreneur in 1999/2000 was involved in many start-up ventures, successfully exiting his first co-founded start-up in March 1999.
Other interests: Craig has travelled extensively in Asia, North, Central and South America, Europe and Africa and has lived in Africa, founding a community development charity in 2007 in Malawi which continues to develop a primary and secondary school focused on providing educational opportunities for underprivileged children. (www.OrbusMinistries.org).
Private investor (since 2000); consultant and broker of mining and exploration assets and projects (www.MiningTenements.com, since 2006).
Education: Bachelor of Theology BTh. (ACT) and Diploma in Theology (Dip. Th) from the Presbyterian Theological College in Box Hill graduating in 2008. Graduate (Melbourne, 2002) of the Company Director's Diploma Course at the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD); Certificate in Financial Markets (SIA/FINSIA) with two W.A. State subject awards (Stockbrokers Administrative Procedures and Futures Markets); and short courses of study in geology and drill management at the W.A. School of Mines in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. In July 2020 completed the five-week Antler Launch Academy course for the development of start-up ventures.
Recent Previous Boards:
- Presbyterian Theological College - Theological Education Committee (Governing board) 2013 to 2020.
- South Yarra Presbyterian Church - Board of Management
Church and Community Involvement:
- South Yarra Presbyterian Church - Catechism Teacher 2014 to 2019.
- St. Andrews Christian College and South East Eagles Basketball Club - Coach and Team Manager for numerous teams 2013 to 2024.
Photography: Craig Manners has had photos published in magazines, books, websites, brochures and on five magazine covers, including an airline in-flight magazine for Malawi Airlines in 2012.
Craig’s photos are available for various uses for a donation of $50 per use to the African charity Craig founded in 2007 called Orbus and payable here along with an attribution as follows: "Photo by Craig Manners (www.CraigManners.com)"
Some of Craig’s photography is available on Unsplash where he has received over 30 million views to June 2024 https://unsplash.com/@craigmanners_com
Contact: Email
Socials:
Craig Manners | LinkedIn
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/craigmanners1
X.com/craigmanners1
From the 2016 Federal Election material: “Family First endorsed Senate Candidate for Victoria, Craig Manners (51), is self-employed, a proud Australian from a family who arrived in Melbourne six generations ago. One of Craig's grandfathers fought in World War 1, and the other in World War 2, to secure the freedoms we now enjoy in Australia, freedoms which are under imminent threat from the deceptively named “progressive” movement.” With a background in small business, investment, financial markets, venture capital and not-for-profit charities, plus some valuable experience in dealing with big-government heavy-handedness, misuse and abuse of power, and experience at managing his own family with balanced budgets and without long-term deficits, along with much community involvement through years of volunteering at sporting clubs, charities, school, church and community groups, both locally and in Africa, Mr. Manners is well prepared to represent his community in parliament.”
“Craig also has some front-line legal experience after spending five years relatively successfully defending himself from a heavy-handed and over-zealous government corporate regulator (ASIC) in 2005. The ASIC matter related to Craig's success (in 1999/2000) at rescuing and legitimately (Judge White) turning a $1.8m junior gold explorer around and building Adelong Capital Ltd into a $140m successful internet start-up incubator during the heady dot-com boom of 1999/2000.
ASIC were basically found to have misused State resources and power to bully and hinder Adelong and over-zealously pursue Mr. Manners, who exited the ordeal with "his integrity fully intact." (Barrister Peter Jones). It was revealed some years later that ASIC ignored insider calls to investigate alleged wrongdoing at CBA while focusing their resources on pursuing the Adelong case, a case which it turned out was not what they portrayed it to be. The reasons for choosing to pursue Mr. Manners and Adelong were thought to be personally motivated along the lines of religious/ideological lines and ease of access to his assets which were all in his own name. While overzealously overwhelming Mr. Manners, who was willing to settle and avoid a costly investigation, ASIC were ignoring serious and culturally imbedded corporate wrongdoing at the Commonwealth Bank which was then allowed to continue for more than a decade unhindered, causing the loss of millions of dollars of small investors hard-earned savings. ASIC had a duty to those individual Australians, but they chose to pursue something else for personal reasons. Source 1 and Source 2
Importantly ASIC were also discovered to have withheld vital evidence from Mr. Manner’s defense team, something which was only discovered long after the trial but which will come to light in due course. (To those inside ASIC/AFP who decided to withhold this evidence, you know who you are and all will be revealed.)
After five debilitating years, the fully informed (as opposed to the media's uninformed and biased "fake news" reporting) Judge Bill White's final words on the matter, on November 4th 2005, say all that needs to be said: "Mr. Manners, this has been a tortuous ordeal for you and your family. You are free to go." Judges do not say these sorts of things unless there is much more to the story than what is told by the prosecutor and reported in the media.”
It has been noted that had ASIC not been so over-zealous in wanting to make Craig Manners a scapegoat for the excesses of the internet boom, Adelong Capital Limited would probably have gone on to be a huge Australian tech success story. Craig's supposedly misleading enthusiasm for the internet looks very tame and mild compared to the reality 20 years later. His "misleading" enthusiasm was in hindsight extremely understated. Well done ASIC.
https://www.craigmanners.com/from-the-archives-craig-manners-8203senate-candidate-for-the-family-first-party-in-victoria-australian-federal-election-2nd-july-2016.html
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/familyfirstvic/pages/29/attachments/original/1466423766/FFP_2016_HTV_Aston-Chisholm-Deakin_-Menzies.pdf?1466423766