State Capture: Coalition assault on GetUp backfires, catches a rash of fossil fuel donors

Egged on by The Australian, and other Murdoch media, the government pursued left-wing activist group GetUp to force it to disclose its political party links to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). The aim was to bust them for being Labor supporters. Ironically, the upshot was that the Coalition’s own financiers and influencers, lobby groups such as the Minerals Council of Australia and Business Council of Australia, were caught in the sting. They all donate to Labor too, although often in lesser amounts. 

Now all “political campaigners” have to disclose their donations. We list the major ones below.

There was plenty the government could have done to reform political donations in this country; if in fact “reform” was…