{"id":9966,"date":"2021-01-18T20:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T20:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=267150"},"modified":"2021-01-18T20:33:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T20:33:58","slug":"lobbyland-ten-lobbyists-for-every-mp-has-democracy-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/lobbyland-ten-lobbyists-for-every-mp-has-democracy-on-life-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbyland: ten lobbyists for every MP has democracy on life support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lobbyland.main_.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lobbyland, lobbying, lobbyists\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lobbyland.main_.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lobbyland.main_-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>The resources industry donated $136.8 million over two decades to Australian political parties. Donations buy a lot of influence, with research showing that for every US$1 spent, the return on investment can be as high as US$220. In return, public policy is moulded to suit the interests of the highest corporate bidders and their lobbyists. Adam Lucas investigates.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/lobbyland-ten-lobbyists-for-every-mp-has-democracy-on-life-support\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resources industry donated $136.8 million over two decades to Australian political parties. Donations buy a lot of influence, with research showing that for every US$1 spent, the return on investment can be as high as US$220. In return, public poli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9967,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions\/9967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}