These figures have been forwarded to The Brave Truth Australia & New Zealand. These are for Conventions held from October 2024 – January 2025 in Australia & New Zealand. We thought it very important information to share.
Put together by survivors to highlight the stunning cost of travel to have keynote speakers at conventions in Australia & New Zealand.
Also attached from TBTAuNZ:
– Workers list for AU/NZ Conventions
– 4 (real) example travel maps of visiting workers
– Flight Costs Calculated in AUD $98,752.00 (see non inclusions below)
– Therapy Costs
No internal flight costs for local workers included – eg Mackay – Brisbane, Melbourne – Launceston, Auckland/Wellington – Christchurch.
People have continually asked for a pause on such gatherings out of respect and to help survivors who have been left in the ditch.
*This estimate is very accurate with regards to cost – see Attached workers travel list to calculate for your own confirmation*
From the people who gathered this information…
“Footnote: Purpose of this exercise
To highlight the huge cost of moving workers around during convention season and to respectfully pause to consider being victim centric and channel funds towards mental and emotional wellbeing, and support for those who have been minimised and/or forgotten. To also counter the many horrible abuses, coverups and deceit which have been costly, more than money could afford or fix.
Putting victim care as a priority, would be an act of goodwill and honest acknowledgement and a first step in the right direction of love and likeness to Jesus.
The cost of flights: A ballpark figure only and were calculated using, in most instances, the most direct flight to/from home port then subsequent internal flights using low to average economy class fares. Not all travel legs and not all workers had flight costs due to travelling partly or exclusively by car.
There would be additional costs such as travel insurance, stopovers, domestic flights in home country etc.
Many may also have onward flights and costs for further convention routes, costs of which are impossible to calculate. This was an estimate of the AUS/NZ component only, then home again.
How would we administrate and accomplish the distribution of funds for mental health care and psychological support, amongst a group so broad and so broken?
That would be step two – we’ve missed step one.
In the interest of transparency, please disseminate widely, for open respectful discussion and for quiet personal honest self-examination and reflection”
