Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Australian national political donations: who gave to which party in 2007-2008
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) released the 2007-08 annual returns for political donations and expenditure this week.
Here is a brief breakdown:
Australian Labor Party [National] - 81 donations listed
Biggest donor Village Roadshow Limited at $205,000
Liberal Party of Australia [National] - 66 donors on record.
Largest donor Brickworks at $250,000
National Party of Australia [National] - 20 donations are recorded
Largest donor Hong Kong Kingson Investments at $250,000
Australian Greens [National] - 1 donation listed
Only donor Mr. Russell Thompson at $20,000
Family First [National] - 1 donor
Only donor Grocon Pty Ltd at $5,000
Christian Democratic Party [National] - 0 donors
In addition: the Business Council of Australia spent $2.3 million on political publication and broadcasting and the Australian Council of Trade Unions outlaid around $15.8 million across the spectrum.
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2 comments:
Hi,
Where are you getting your figures from?
The Greens disclosure form states that the biggest donor was the ETU with $110,000.
http://periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au/Returns/10/P2589.pdf
Info comes from the Australian Electoral Commission and is for the parties at a national level.
State donations are sometimes higher in amount and, also sometimes there is a discrepancy between different donation and expenditure tables because not everyone declares or declares in time to be included.
Eg., a party amy declare a donation but the donor fails to declare.
It usually takes another 6-12 months for all this to wash through.
Frustrating isn't it?
The figure I quoted came from Donor Summary by Party - Annual Returns- for The Greens [National]
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