Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is the major partner in the Liberal-National coalition which has governed Australia since 1996.
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Associated Entities
Organisations controlled by the Liberal Party, and mostly used to funnel funding to the party to avoid public scrutiny, include:
- The Cormack Foundation
- The Greenfields Foundation
- The Free Enterprise Foundation
- The Menzies Research Centre
Funding
In 2004, The Age newspaper reported that: "Last financial year, the biggest donation to the Coalition came from the Cormack Foundation, a long-term supporter of the Liberal Party set up with the proceeds of the sales of Melbourne radio station 3XY to promote private enterprise. The little-known private foundation pumped $1.8 million into Liberal Party coffers in 2002-03."
Despite receiving $100,000 a year in public funding, the Menzies Research Centre is also a major donor the Liberal Party, donating $327,000 to the party between 1998/9 and 2003/4 [1].
Radical neo-liberal activists within the Coalition
Cahill (2004: 293) identified the following neoliberal activists (their neoliberal movement activity is shown in brackets):
- Jim Carlton (Founder, Crossroads)
- Peter Costello (Founder, HR Nicholls Society)
- David Kemp (Crossroads, IPA, HR Nicholls Society)
- Rod Kemp (Director, IPA)
- Ian McLachlan (IPA)
- David Trebeck (Crossroads)
- Andrew Robb (HR Nicholls Society)
- John Elliott (IPA
- Eda Ritchie IPA
- John Hyde (Founder, Crossroads, AIPP, IPA)
- Bert Kelly (Crossroads)
- Gerald Henderson (HR Nicholls Society, IPA)
- Andrew Hay (Crossroads, AIPP)
- Tony Rutherford (IPA
- Peter Kerr (IPA Director 1990)
- David Russell (Crossroads, HR Nicholls Society)
- William Cole AIPP
- Tim Duncan IPa
- Michael Kroger (HR Nicholls Society)
- Charles Copeman (Centre 2000)
- John Stone ipa
- Gary Sturgess (Crossroads)
- Nick Greiner (Crossroads)
- Bruce Baird
- Brian Buckley
- Peter Shack
- Murray Sainsbury
- Martin Rawlinson
- John Hewson
- John Rose
- Peter Phillips (Advisory Board, Centre 2000)
- Cliff Walsh
- William Kerley (Contributor to IPA Review)
- Alistair Nicholas CIS
- John Hay (Australian Free Enterprise Foundation)
- Michael Warby ipa
Related Sourcewatch articles
External links
- Josh Gordon, Parties hide donor identities, The Age, 3 February 2004.
- Damien C. Cahill, "The radical neo-liberal movement as a hegemonic force in Australia, 1976-1996", University of Wollongong, PhD Thesis, 2004. (Available online from all Australian Universities)
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