$15K Raised in ONE WEEK - Our Next Big Move
THE TLDR: We, the Punters, have raised $15,000 in one week (now $27,000!) toward our $75,000 goal to hire a full-time lobbyist and fight corporate influence in Australian politics. This campaign builds on our past wins—like billboards exposing tax-dodging gas cartels (which corporate media conveniently ignored). Now, we’re fighting fire with fire: infiltrating Parliament with a people-powered lobbyist.
KEY FACTS:
1️⃣ Corporate Lobbyists Dominate Politics. Over 2,000 corporate lobbyists outnumber politicians 3-to-1, rigging laws for monopolies (like the gas giants avoiding taxes while we Aussies face a cost-of-living crisis).
2️⃣ "Bastardized" Laws: How Lobbyists Hijack Policy. At a recent tax policy summit, experts revealed their advice has been ignored for a decade - with laws systematically weakened ("bastardized," in their words) between drafting and passage. The culprit? Corporate lobbyists, ensuring loopholes for gas cartels and monopolies stay untouched.
3️⃣ We are exposing the Dark Money Hypocrisy. Politicians take $67M in anonymous “dark money” - so we are accepting untraceable donations too, turning the system’s corruption against itself.
Goal: $75K for a part-time lobbyist (ideally a repentant ex-corporate shill) to demand transparency and fairer policies.
Delve deeper with our Punter Citations:
The Guardian - ‘Dark money’ totalling $67.2m flowed to Labor, Coalition and Greens in 2023-24
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