The campaigners who pushed for a Voice to parliament obtained tens of hundreds of thousands extra monetary donations than teams against the reconciliation motion, new knowledge exhibits.
The Australian Electoral Fee has simply launched new figures detailing the sums obtained and expended by political events and foyer teams concerned in final 12 months’s referendum marketing campaign, which was defeated by a 60-40 margin.
The marketing campaign director of Yes23, Dean Parkin, speaks on the evening of the referendum defeat.Credit score: Dominic Lorrimer
The disclosures present main teams tied to the Sure marketing campaign raked in additional than $60 million, which was spent on promoting and different marketing campaign materials. Yes23 fundraising physique Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition obtained $47.5 million, and the Uluru Dialogues group – through the College of NSW – obtained greater than $11 million.
Left-wing group GetUp! gathered $1.7 million and the Labor Celebration secured $400,000.
On the No facet, the group led by senator Jacinta Nampajinpa Worth, Australians for Unity, obtained about $11 million, the Liberal Celebration gained $1.9 million, and high-profile campaigners Advance solicited $1.3 million.
The most important particular person donors have been the Paul Ramsay basis – based by way of a bequest from the Australian enterprise of the identical identify – which gave $7 million to the principle pro-Voice group.
MYOB founder Craig Winkler’s agency gave $4.5 million to the Sure-aligned Uluru Dialogues.
ANZ financial institution gave $2.5 million to Yes23, whereas Westpac, Commonwealth Financial institution, Wesfarmers, BHP, Rio Tinto, Woolworths Group and Woodside Vitality all gave upwards of one million {dollars} to the identical group.
