Popular policies would be a better revenue raiser than taking fossil fuel and gambling donations - Aussie Zone

>Winning votes might be a better strategy than wining and dining the rich >The reality is that political donations from harmful industries are small relative to the payments parties receive from you, the voter. >Australia provides taxpayer funding to parties and candidates based on how many votes they receive. At the May 2025 federal election, each voter was worth around $6.80 in public funding, and that will rise to $10 at the next election – that’s $5 each for ballots for the House of Representatives and Senate. >Labor got $37 million in taxpayer funding after the 2025 election, the Liberal–National Coalition $33 million, the Greens $13 million and One Nation $6 million. >It pays to be popular. Winning the vote of an extra 1% of Australians (about 160,000 people) is worth $1.1 million, set to rise from next year to $1.6 million. Learnt a lot I didn’t know.