Leaked emails raise big issues with funding of Liberal Party

Updated April 23 2018 - 9:33pm, first published March 2 2015 - 3:29pm

Leaked emails raise big issues with funding of Liberal Party

Included in the recent leaked emails of Philip Higginson, honorary treasurer of the Liberal Party of Australia, were comments to the effect that he was about to visit America to raise tens of millions in donations for the Liberal Party, and that this had been discussed with the Prime Minister ("Trouble in Abbott's camp", February 24, p1). This matter seems to have escaped public attention. The questions need to be asked as to why election funds for the federal Liberal Party are being raised in America, from whom, and what is being offered to American donors, if anything, to persuade them to donate to election funding for the Liberal Party of Australia?

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