The authors of this paper argue that targeted reforms are needed to introduce transparency and diversity into federal political finance: disclosing political contributions in real time, publishing ministers’ diaries, stopping the very wealthy from dominating election spending, making public funding accessible to new entrants and restricting corporate cash-for-access payments.

This report investigates how major public companies in Australia disclose and govern their political expenditures and climate lobbying.

This inquiry was established to inquire into and report on all Australian government decisions relating to any proposals since 2016 for additional airline services to Australia’s airports.

The objective of this paper is to determine the true nature of a series of Community Pharmacy Agreements between the Federal Government and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and whether these agreements serve the public’s access and use of medicines. The paper concludes that the Agreements can be characterised predominantly as industry policy benefiting pharmacy...

This article aims to study whether policy issue characteristics affect corporate lobbying behaviour. In doing so, it attempts to make a theoretical contribution to the interest group literature and more specifically on the behaviour of key business actors in the interest group system.