Yes Group Links – Indigenous Australia
No group links- Global
Dr Jeremy Walker, a lecturer of political studies at the University of Technology Sydney, alleges No campaign disinformation is linked to the Atlas Network, a global network of right-wing think tanks and lobby groups that was partly funded by the billionaires Charles and David Koch.
The multibillionaire brothers were (David is now deceased) co-owners of Koch Industries, a conglomerate with interests in petroleum and chemicals, and have been credited with dragging American politics to the right by funding anti-union politicians.
Atlas was described this week by the New Republic as a “shadowy global network” with “powerful allies in the oil, gas, and extractive industries”.
The global network of organisations has previously been funded by the tobacco industry and includes LibertyWorks, an Australian activist group chaired by No campaign frontman Warren Mundine.
LibertyWorks reportedly owed the government more than $170,000 for failed legal cases brought against COVID-19 restrictions.
Advance Australia was contacted for comment.
Voters this week received text messages from Fair Australia’s other lead spokesperson, NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price calling the Voice “risky, unknown and divisive” and containing a link to a Liberal Party-run website for casting postal votes on the referendum.
Senator Price’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Text messages from Fair Australia’s lead spokesperson, NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price calling the Voice “risky, unknown and divisive”.
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