Gambling lobby gave $500,000 to Liberals ahead of Tasmanian election

Slow disclosure regimes mean the state’s voters have had to wait 11 months to discover the source of the huge donations

The gambling lobby donated more than $500,000 to the Liberals to help defeat Tasmanian Labor and stymie plans to remove poker machines from the state’s pubs and clubs.

Data released on Friday morning also reveals donations worth $500,000 from ANZ bank to both Labor and the Liberals during political wrangling over the royal commission, and significant contributions by the mining and resources industry to both sides of politics, including $50,000 from Adani to the Liberals and One Nation.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2MKrasS
via
0 Comments