Fed: NSW Labor tops political donations

AAP General News (Australia)
02-01-2001
Fed: NSW Labor tops political donations

The New South Wales Labor Party was the best supported political party last financial
year, with donations and public funding adding up to more than $9 million.

The Australian Electoral Commission says the total for all state branches of the Labor
Party was more than $44 million.

The Liberal Party got more than $18 million nationwide and the National Party nearly $5 million.

The Australian Democrats got just under $1 million and Pauline Hanson's One Nation got $874,000.





The biggest single donation was $430,000 from public relations firm Markson Sparks
to the New South Wales Labor Party.

Second biggest was $250,000 from packaging billionaire RICHARD PRATT to the federal
Liberal Party.

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