Political transparency
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Politicians get into power by campaigning. The better funded a campaign the more likely a candidate is to get into office. Taking Australia as an example, some data about political donations has been released[1]. And public funding for campaigning has been debated[2], however it is still allowed that corporate sponsorship is allowed.
We the open data available from the APH is difficult to digest so we illustrated it better below...
Graph 1: Donations made to each politician.
You can type in a name of an Australian political candidate and it will show who their main financial contributors are.
For the green credentials of individual MPs, have a look at Vote Earth Now.
References
- ↑ Annual disclosure return:https://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/financial_disclosure/guides/donors/index.htm
- ↑ https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Completed_Inquiries/em/political_funding/Report/Chapter6