We need action to tackle corruption in politics.
Across Australia, political donations from some of the most damaging industries have skyrocketed.
That’s why the Greens are working to ban donations from mining companies, property developers, big tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries. We’re also calling for a National ICAC to stamp out corruption across Australia.
Large donors now have privileged access to ministers and MPs, and major decisions are made to benefit polluters, property developers, and big business. Around the country, from ICAC's corruption revelations in NSW to the gutting of climate change policy which lets big polluters off the hook, we can see the impact of big business donations.
We can see it in gaming machines, in overdevelopment, in alcohol and tobacco related diseases, and in the tax breaks and subsidies we give miners courtesy of the taxpayer.
We can see it in government decisions to advance the interests of big miners over local communities in Maules Creek, Gloucester, and the Liverpool Plains.
We can see it in the failure of the Rudd, Gillard, Abbott and Turnbull governments to take on pokies reform.
We can see it in the impacts of the tobacco industry, which kills 6,000 people and hospitalises 42,000 people each year.
And we can see it in the $61 million that the likes of Westfield, Meriton, and other property developers have poured into Labor and the Coalition.
It’s well past time for reform. Help us get the message to Labor and the Coalition or visit our Democracy For Sale database, which makes donations easily searchable. Donations can be analysed by party, donor, time or industry.