Fossil Fuel Donations – Senator Larissa Waters
Just once a year we get to see who is donating to political parties, and every year it is awash with big corporates and big polluters donating big money to the big parties, and usually getting big access and big influence over policy making.
With around $2 million gifted to both of the major parties by the fossil fuel companies and their cheerleaders, it’s little wonder that no matter who is in government, the fossil fuel sector continues to get almost $11 billion in public subsidies every year, in cheap fuel and accelerated depreciation, plus direct grants to open new polluting projects.
These industries are not donating millions of dollars because they believe in the institution of strong democracy. They are donating because it gets results for them.
Labor is taking money from the coal and gas corporations causing the climate crisis and then proposing laws that allow new coal and gas projects to go ahead. The coal and gas donors’ fingerprints are tragically all over Labor’s safeguard legislation.