Whereas the state of affairs may not be fairly as blatant because it was underneath the Coalition, Labor continues to be very happy to take care of its big-spending associates.
Whereas the trade of political donations and post-politics gigs for coverage favours for firms was particularly clear underneath the rotten Morrison authorities, the election of Labor was by no means going to deliver to an finish both Australia’s two-speed democracy or mates being sorted by the politicians they fund.
So it’s confirmed in latest days as federal Labor ministers clutched their pearls about local weather protesters focusing on the CEO of Australia’s high local weather legal, Woodside, becoming a member of the Liberals, Information Corp, the 100% fossil fuel-owned WA Labor authorities and the Monetary Evaluation (which is now laying the groundwork for a hysterical marketing campaign of opposition to industrial motion by Woodside employees — can the comparisons with Putin be far off within the pages of the AFR?).
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