As they gear up for an election year, the Liberal and Labor parties and their state branches raked in more than $64 million each.
Billionaire packaging king Anthony Pratt tipped $1 million into Anthony Albanese’s campaign fund around the time the prime minister attended a Katy Perry concert at Pratt’s house.
Investors Rob Keldoulis and Marcus Catsaras were the strongest backers of the teal movement last year, donating more than $1 million each throughout the year to Climate 200, making them the joint-largest donors in the country. The next month, he held a private event at his Raheen mansion at which Perry performed to a crowd of influential business and political leaders, including the prime minister. At the time,As they gear up for an election year, the Liberal and Labor parties and their state branches raked nearly identical amounts, more than $64 million each. Labor’s national office took in $15 million compared to the Liberal’s $11 million.
William Taylor Nominees, a private company directed by venture capital investor James Taylor, gave $533,000 to the teal movement; First Australians Capital gave $500,000 to GetUp!; Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting gave $500,000 to Coalition parties; Climate 200 provided $432,000 to teal MPs; and the Pharmacy Guild donated $402,000 to various branches of both major parties.The Coalition’s biggest were Vapold and the Cormack Foundation , two of the party’s associated entities.
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