Election disclosures detail the millions of dollars raised and spent by the teal independents to defeat high profile Liberal MPs in blue-ribbon seats at the May federal election.
The disclosures show two of the teal independents spent more than $2.1 million on their campaignsThe group says 72 per cent of its donors contributed $200 or less
Allegra Spender in the wealthy Sydney eastern suburbs seat of Wentworth spent the most of any independent candidate, $2.124 million, to oust moderate backbencher Dave Sharma.Ms Spender's expenditure was closely followed by Monique Ryan, who spent $2.122 million to defeat the sitting treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong.
ACT Senator David Pocock was also a big beneficiary from Climate 200 and defeated conservative Liberal Minister Zed Seselja.He will disclose the full details of his donations at the same time as the major political parties in February next year.Senator Pocock and Climate 200 have advocated for donation reform to reveal contributions in real time, instead of many months after an election.
In total, 11 candidates that received support from Climate 200 were successful, however, four were already in the federal parliament, including Zali Steggall, who spent $768,000.Climate 200 has long argued it needed to back pro-climate action candidates to level the playing field and make sure the independents were competitive with representatives of the major parties.
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