I expect ABC News will also publish a similar item reporting how much money Gina Rinehart has donated to the Liberals & Nationals election campaigns. yknow, for fair & balanced news coverage. 😏 #auspol #AusVotes25
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Ha ha... Gina has lost track of how many millions she has spent on RW politicians... preserving her "rights" to trash our world, our decency and unity...and so much else. I despise the journalists too who act as megaphones for this harm.
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#LNPneveragain
Wow .. are the people here just clueless, or wilfully ignorant?
The ONLY reason that the ABC can report this is because the candidates disclosed their donations. To my knowledge, the COALition and Gina have done no such thing and annual disclosure is too little too late.
Hard for ABC to do that accurately because not all donations are equally transparent. #Climate200 has full disclosure of donations. Can the same be said of the LNP or are we seeing just the tip of the iceberg?
We also need an enquiry into donations that come indirectly, say Gina donates millions to Advance etc who in turn spend some of it Advertising for the LNP and donate the rest to the LNP, that way the Donation doesn't show up as coming from Gina
Funny how they're willing to talk about politicians being backed by business interests looking to stamp out worker's rights, yet they're not doing it with the Liberals.
Like, yes. We know the Teals have been voting against pro-worker policy. Can you tell us how the LNP is a corrupt shithole too?
Well said, call out the constant badgering about Climate 200 but not other donors…lots of far right christian groups, white nationalist groups, Gina, etc…
The question of donations and the media just shows the bias of information. The mantra is forget the major parties $m if not $B let’s put the heat on a few individuals and conflate the argument without going to the root cause. Designed to create confusion and if it’s bad. It’s the system we have
Gotcha questioning indeed. People are in la la land if they think candidates in today's hyper-media environment can succeed without backers. Is that ideal. No. Is it brutal reality. Yes.
Sally earned the right to call herself a journalist from her years overseas reporting. However she seems to have sold her soul to RWNJs and frankly her right, to call herself a journalist. She should give up serious breakfast radio and move to a comedy show called “Journalism - Believe it not”.
She was great for the 1st 6wks after taking over from Karvelas. No gotchas or cynicism, just straight interviewing. Then at the start of Feb it suddenly changed 🤔
It's no coincidence that ABC managers start returning from their lengthy Xmas holidays after Australia Day. She was clearly 'counselled'
Wasn’t it cringe worthy! Predetermined question and based on a false premise in any event. The ABC surely knows that Climate 200 itself is funded by a multitude of donors unlike shady operators like Advance. There’s no equivalence. Pretending there is, is not ‘balance’.
“Teals and Greens are under political attack from a new pro-fossil fuel, pro-Israel astroturfing group, adding to the onslaught by far-right lobbyists Advance Australia.
“Finkelstein runs his own discreet advisory firm Society Advisory, while director Liberal Party’s primary think-tank Menzies Research Centre. He worked as head of global campaigns for conservative lobby firm Crosby Textor (CT), before working Morrison Special Counsel NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet.
I went to a climate 200 event and they pointed out that the incumbent doesn't have to fundraise because they use staff & resources already available at the tax-payers' expense.
How about the Liberal funding arm Cormack Foundation and it's links to Advance Australia and Atlas network
Lots of dark money and big donors with zero transparency
#auspol
I was thinking exactly that this morning. The stunning amounts of dark money in the Libs election war chest are a danger to our sovereignty as a nation. Labor not immune either. One Nation and Family 1st are especially beholden to donors and are also just votes for hire.
Could we look at Advance Australians campaign targetting the Greens and the ALP funded STOP THE GREENS leaflets (the latter might be a Macnamara thing but is being handed out with Labor HTV)?
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The ONLY reason that the ABC can report this is because the candidates disclosed their donations. To my knowledge, the COALition and Gina have done no such thing and annual disclosure is too little too late.
A quick google will show ABC has reported on political donations from
Rinehart and others in last couple of years
I remember noticing that the Liberals also donated $500 000 in the last year to Advance.
Like, yes. We know the Teals have been voting against pro-worker policy. Can you tell us how the LNP is a corrupt shithole too?
Sara's entire woeful interview was just a collection of attempted gotchas, but Ryan called out this specific line of attack as "a disgrace" 👏🏼
#auspol
Monique Ryan is impressive
It's no coincidence that ABC managers start returning from their lengthy Xmas holidays after Australia Day. She was clearly 'counselled'
Yaron Finkelstein, and former Labor NSW Treasurer Eric Roozendaal
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https://michaelwest.com.au/labor-and-liberal-powerbrokers-join-to-attack-teals-and-greens/.
#TheirABC
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/gina/id1776930118
Lots of dark money and big donors with zero transparency
#auspol
https://youtu.be/_g5V7ry-GLw?si=C6Vl2qcUwk1EQ0iC
Four Corners might.
I'm presuming the IPA is quite busy at the moment plastering the ABC's inbox with pro neo conservative partisan articles.