Money and influence: big spenders in state election revealed

Friday January 22, 2021

New documents reveal Queensland’s big campaign spenders, as one of the biggest of them all claims to be the victim of a political conspiracy.

The Queensland election campaign was a particularly divisive affair.

Several big spenders have made fresh disclosures with the Electoral Commission of Queensland ahead of the major parties reconciling their expenses for the October state election.

Some lobby groups and companies spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to influence the outcome of the election, which resulted in Labor being returned with more MPs for…

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