Day 33 cont 💰💰💰💰🥷

“#ForeignFossilFuel and #IsraelLobbyists are flooding the 2025 election campaign with cash and smear ads against the #Greens, #Teals and #Labor. #auspol

We investigate the #shadowy players behind #AdvanceAustralia, #better Australia, and the so-called #MinorityImpactCoalition, revealing how these '#astroturfers' are sowing fear and lies, deploying #DarkMoney to rig the #conversation.

Who #funds them? Why now? And why is the #AEC doing nothing?”

MichaelWest from the “West Report” (Chanel Youtube 📺) talks about the #ForeignInfluenceOperation being conducted during the current elections.

#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals / #LiberalNationals / #Coalition / #propaganda / #espionage <https://youtube.com/watch?v=pR1vEPh8-BY>

Day 31 cont ⚫️🟡🔴

“The #Coalition has been desperate to talk about #TheVoice, and it's little wonder why — the #referendum not only marked a devastating result for many #FirstNations people but also a turning point in the government's fortunes.

The Coalition's numbers started to surge in the #polls, and now that those numbers have fallen behind #Labor, it's been searching for the way back.”

The public denigration of Australia’s first nations people by the LNP and its followers makes me physically sick.

#AusPol / #LNP / #Nationals / #AdvanceAustralia / #extremism / #RightWing / #Destabilisation <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-30/penny-wong-voice-press-club-trump-call-clive-palmer/105233988>

Day 20 💰💰🏭🏦🛢️☢️🕍⛪️🙏🔥

“spin-off of the US-based #CPAC – short for Conservative Political Action Conference – the #Sydney-based outfit described itself as a “values-based” organisation that “espouses the best of #Howard, #Reagan and #Thatcher while exploring new ideas and themes for the coming generations”.

Guests at the August event included #OneNation senator Pauline Hanson, Michelle Pearse, the CEO of the #AustralianChristianLobby, and broadcaster and soon-to-be alleged sex offender, #AlanJones.

Overseas talent included Jay Aeba, chairman of the Japanese Conservative Union and Heather Wilson, mother of six and co-founder of #GiveSendGo, a #Christian #crowdfunding network which has helped raise money for #NeoNazis and #AntiVaxxers”

“Then, in 2018, investment banker and long-time #ClimateConspiracist Maurice Newman, billionaire storage king Sam Kennard, and David Adler, of the #FarRight Australian Jewish Association (AJA), got together to form #AdvanceAustralia. Money was no problem: #HedgeFund manager and #Liberal Party donor Simon Fenwick tipped in $190,000; a further $400,000 came from Sydney #Establishment couple Rodney and Judith O’Neil, and the Taylor #winemaking family.

Advance pitched itself as a champion of the #SilentMajority – #HowardsBattlers 2.0. But its real concerns were better expressed by another early backer, #hotelier James Power, who was then engaged in a battle to prevent women from becoming members of #Brisbane’s #Tattersall’s Club.”

If you noticed a darker turn to the election this week, here’s a good explanation of the WHY and HOW. Also I see Tony 🧅 got a new job.

#AusPol / #LNP / #Nationals / #Australia <https://archive.md/wY3Cn> / <https://theage.com.au/national/copied-the-maga-model-the-grassroots-lobby-group-funded-by-some-of-australia-s-richest-20250408-p5lq6k.html> (paywall)

Australian (neo)Liberal Party gave Advance $500K in 2024 to do this 👇
A friend working at Prahran polling booth said Advance representatives were highly aggressive but well trained to do nothing illegal or criminal.
#AdvanceAustralia #advance
#advance #auspol #democracy #rightwing

https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/right-wing-advance-and-our-elections/

🙏Tim Winton
Yes anguish fury & frustration.
#climate #climatecrisis
“our chief storytellers are not novelists. They’re PR hacks and lobbyists. As evangelists of hardline, anti-social economic theory, they spin yarns of self-interest for oligarchs.
#democracy #politics #press #media
The think tanks funded by these billionaires, and the lobby-mills they employ, are how vested interests enthral our policymakers and achieve state capture.”
#thinktank #lobbying
#AtlasNetwork #AdvanceAustralia #IPA
https://www.smh.com.au/national/billionaires-and-lobbyists-have-seized-control-of-our-national-narrative-20241028-p5klz6.html

#coal #gas #fossilfuels
Paul Flynn - Chair of the Canbera lobby group "Coal Association of Australia" - works as the Director of Communications of #AdvanceAustralia

the Advance Australia that is running a massive campaign against the #greens.
#democracy #election #interference

Flynn is a public relations guru who worked as advisor to Tony Abbott. #auspol #australia

Having successfully defeated the Voice to Parliament referendum by feeding the distribution of #disinformation, [extreme] conservative groups like the Institute of Public Affairs (#IPA), the Centre for Independent Studies (#CIS), the Liberal-party aligned Menzies Research Group and the ‘campaign group’ #AdvanceAustralia (Kennards) are all ramping up their pro-nuclear, anti-renewables campaigns.

Anyone familiar with Australian climate and clean energy policy over the last couple of decades will be familiar with the Institute of Public Affairs. The well-funded think tank – thanks to generous donors that include mining billionaire Gina Rinehart – has long railed against any efforts to tackle climate change, calling for the abolition of the carbon price and virtually any policy that supports #renewableEnergy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-network-of-conservative-think-tanks-out-to-kill-the-switch-to-renewables/

Fossil fuel companies are running “a massive mis- and disinformation campaign” of “talk” of a global “backlash” against climate action. #fossilfuels #AtlasNetwork #AdvanceAustralia #misinformation
#media #news #lies
So countries will slow down the adoption of renewable energy and the speed with which they “transition away” from a carbon-intensive economy…

#auspol #politics #world #un
It appears to be working to persuade world leaders to delay emissions-cutting policies. Huge worldwide poll shows 72% of people want #climateaction #climate #climate #climatechange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/08/fossil-fuel-industry-using-disinformation-campaign-to-slow-green-transition-says-un?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#auspol #australia #DunkleyVotes #farright #AdvanceAustralia

So ‘Advance’ is trying it on again with the Dunkley by-election - after crushing the Voice to Parliament.
None of what they are shouting about is true or could stand reasonable debate.
All lies and deception - funded by the mining industry, some tech companies and car salesmen from WA this time round it seems.
‘Advance’ stands for making the rich richer and making the planet hotter quicker.
Right wing groups like this and the parties they support, never have and never will represent working class people

The Tyee: Australia’s Big Vote to Honour Indigenous Voices https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/09/01/Australia-Constitutional-Amendment-Indigenous-Peoples-Voice/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #AustralianPrimeMinisterAnthonyAlbanese #AboriginalandTorresStraitIslanders #IndigenousleaderNoelPearson #LarissaBaldwin-RobertsGetUp #SimoneWeilFrenchphilosopher #UluruStatementfromtheHeart #LaborpoliticianGaryJohns #AustralianLaborParty #AustralianNationals #AustralianLiberals #AdvanceAustralia

@VeryBadLlama

😂 The Australian national anthem is a 3. It's worse than that - we keep having to change the words. We could have had a nice #1 with azure skies, rugged mountain ranges &c &c but more people voted for the racist dirge.

#Australia #AdvanceAustralia