abc.net.au/news/clive-palmer-minerology-tops-political-donations-labor-liberal-/101915420Clive Palmer's company, Mineralogy, was the single biggest political donor last financial year, pouring $116 million into the Queensland businessman's United Australia Party .Clive Palmer's company spent more on political donations than it did at the previous electionIndependent David Pocock received about $1.
Mr Pratt, Australia's billionaire cardboard king, spent nearly $4 million ahead of the 2022 election, making him one of the nation's biggest political donors, contributing $1.35 million to the Liberal Party and $250,000 to the Nationals.The Liberals' fundraising vehicle, the Cormack Foundation, donated $3 million to the party, which declared more than $105.6 million in donations last financial year.
Climate 200, which helped bankroll several "teal" independents, chipped $856,382 into David Pocock's successful ACT senate campaign, which declared a total of $1.7 million in donations.Senator Pocock used the release of today's AEC data to again call for electoral donation reform to limit the influence of cashed-up entities on political parties.
$116m? A hell of a lot of money that could have been spent within a community..but frittered on a nonproductive political party. What a waste
we might run off with him we all might have a better life mark really that was just ridiculous
Has he repaid his workers yet
Too much bloody money
Do his board consider that money well spent? How about the shareholders?
Didn't do him much good though, loser.
Clive spending big on NO.
Any money given to a political party should not be tax deductable. Any income from donations to a political party should be taxed at corporate tax rates. Any combined total donated by an individual or company greater than $1000 should be illegal
Talk Russian collision. Where’s the Clive collusion. Cost us that election. For sure 🤔
Go to jail !! Wow this guy ! He’s a real hose holder, siphon hose that is. Lol 😂
Change the law Albo
And the cannabis party got more votes with a couple hundreds bucks worth of corflutes. . 😂😂
Clive's inflated ego isn't terribly important politically. But the ABC get more than a billion taxpayer dollars a year - year in, year out - to produce PR spins for the Left of center politics. Now that's a real scandal, eh?
$116m
abcnewsAustralia , now do an article on how much was donated to the Greens
How many to the Qld workers
Pity the mongrel can’t pay his former employees!!
Meanwhile corporation 'Donate' billions every year to other political parties purely out of the goodness of their heart..
Palmer is one of Australia’s finest cesspool dwelling scumbags!
Largesse much!
Knows how to waste money, just out of interest how much money did the unions give to labor, you know the money they get from the super funds.
Now do the unions and climate 200
Now do the Unions with AustralianLabor Labor or the ASX 200 companies with the LiberalAus ... No? Pathetic. TheirABC
good investment
Drop in the ocean compared to what SBF gave the democrats.
It’s a tax write-off. Instead of sending it to the Govt as tax, he “donated” it and bought political influence.
Worst $116m purchase in history.
And now he is formenting concern in his base, with his yellow COVID newspaper ads. How dare he suggest that three random US speakers and a junior AU uni staffer are authoritative on COVID. Is it just a donor cash grab?
Nice to have that sort of money to completely waste.
Nothing wrong here. If anything, this is self funded political activism. We should support more of it.