Taxpayers gift $20m to Linfox for electric trucks

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A Sky News investigation on political donations found that the billionaire Fox family is a major donor to the Labor Party:

Fox Group Holdings, linked to Lindsay Fox, provided a $500,000 donation and additional receipts, while Linfox Property Group also gave $10,000 to the party.

The money was obviously well spent, with Linfox receiving nearly $20 million from taxpayers for 26 electric trucks [my emphasis]:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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