Investigation: how political donations protect a cosy loophole for Australia’s plutocrats – Michael West

“Political donations buy access to parliamentarians, they buy policy outcomes, and they buy a post-parliament career with the revolving door between politics and business”. Stephanie Tran and Michael West investigate the dark money which flows from Australia’s family business empires to the major political parties and identify a raft of failures in the donations system.

Investigation: how political donations protect a cosy loophole for Australia’s plutocrats – Michael West