The dodgy list of Australian political donors
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Gamblers, bankers, smokers, prospectors, tax-dodgers, “auditors”, Packers and Turnbulls.
All that’s missing is Pablo Escobar, and a few noted Chinese…
One final point. It seems to me pretty odd that Malcolm Turnbull is allowed to donate so much to himself. Rather looks like buying the prime ministership. Not exactly setting the standard. Or, rather, setting it all to clearly of others to follow…
Ban it all and raise public funding for qualifying parties.
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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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