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960Coroner & LegalCOMMENT: The right to know & donations to the Tas Liberal Party by the Public Trustee’s lobby group
Should a Tasmanian Government agency belong to a politically active industry lobby group which donates to the party currently in government? It...
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923Coroner & Legal
Tasmanian Liberals disclose origins of less than one-fourteenth of income
The Tasmanian branch of the Liberal Party has disclosed the origin of less than one-fourteenth of the income they received in the...
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1.2KCoroner & Legal
Will Tasmania be left as the last state without regulation of political donations?
Tasmania might soon be the only state in Australia without the regulation of political donations if the Victorian Government follows the recommendation...
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1.4KCoroner & Legal
Who are the invisible major donors behind the Tasmanian Liberal Party?
Dozens and potentially several hundred major donors to the Tasmanian Liberal Party in the 2014 financial year remain hidden from public view...
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1.0KCoroner & Legal
COMMENT: Does the Tasmanian Government really know what its policy is on pathology privatisation?
The Minister for State Growth, Matthew Groom, emphatically told State Parliament on Wednesday last week that the Hodgman Government’s policy was that...
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1.2KEnvironment
State Government considers secret private bid for public ‘medical services’
The State Government is refusing to disclose details of unsolicited bids received by the Office of the Coordinator-General from companies pitching proposals...
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1.6KEconomy
What happens if a major political donor doesn’t disclose?
People who don’t vote – unless they persuade the Australian Electoral Commission that they have a compelling excuse – are subject to...
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1.1KEconomy
Who’s a Liberal donor gonna call? Rentbusters!
Federal Minister for Health, Sussan Ley, has confirmed that she is considering a proposal by Australia’s private pathology industry lobby group to...
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2.1KHealth
The private pathology industry emerges as major Tasmanian Liberals donor
In the past three years a Canberra-based lobby group for Australia’s $2.5 billion a year private pathology industry – together with two...
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1.2KEconomy
Rupert’s back in town
On August 10 Rupert Murdoch, the Executive Chairman of News Corporation – the parent company of The Mercury – jetted back into...
