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The AEC has published political donations data for the 2020-21 fin yr today (better late than never, but it should be in real time!). Let’s see which dodgy corporations have been lining whose pockets, shall we? (thread) #auspol
The biggest donor of the year goes to billionaire Anthony Pratt of the Visy recycling empire for giving the Libs $1.26 Million. Pratt is mates with Trump & Morrison.
Empire Energy, who got $21 million in public money to frack the NT’s Beetaloo Basin for dirty gas, gave $40k to Libs & $25k to NT Labor. Empire’s Chair has personally previously donated over $200K to the LNP. Pretty good return on investment 🙄 #auspol
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1/ Transparency International (@anticorruption) have just released their 'corruption perception index' rankings for the last year

It's a global rank of government corruption. We came 13th #Auspol #DemocracyForSale

theguardian.com/australia-news…
2/ Since 2012, we've slipped from 7th to 13th and to be honest, it's not actually that hard to see why...

#Auspol
3/ In that same time period (since 2012), @LiberalAus and @AustralianLabor have received more than $100 million from some of the biggest corporations in #Auspol (and the World!) through political donations, or other means - such as 'business forums'
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