‘Dark money’: $57m of donations to major Australian parties in 2022-23 of unknown origin

Analysis of AEC’s annual political returns show one quarter of major parties’ funding comes from unnamed sources

• Nick Evershed and Sarah Basford Canales
• The Guardian

The origin of at least $57m – amounting to about a quarter of all funding to major political parties – is unknown, according to an analysis by Guardian Australia.

The analysis of annual political returns, released by the Australian Electoral Commission on Thursday, show between 21% and 27% of donations and other receipts to Labor, the Coalition and the Greens were from unnamed sources.

Political parties were only required to declare the source of donations and other payments that were above a…

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