Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

[by video link] I can't let Senator Watt's remarks pass unchallenged. He seems to know more about donations to Greens and crossbench senators than he does about donations to his own party, so I'm going to assist Senator Watt by placing firmly on the record that Woodside's political donations in the last nine years in Australia totalled $2,111,190. Of that, $1,110,190 has gone to the Liberal and National parties, and $1,001,000 has gone to the Australian Labor Party. So your party has received over a million bucks in institutionalised bribery from Woodside in the last nine years, and I would urge you to stop focusing actually on the crossbench; start having a look in the mirror and understand how corrupted your party as well as the Liberal and National parties has become through receiving this level of political donations from Woodside.

And of course these are only part of the donations that the Liberal and National parties and the ALP receive from other planet-cooking companies that have a corporate profit-making model which externalises the true costs to our climate and environment and to all of us and, instead, embeds those costs in profits to their shareholders and uses some of those profits to bribe the ALP and the Liberal and National parties for outcomes in the Senate and in the parliament of Australia. It's institutionalised bribery. Corporate political donations should not be allowed and they certainly should not be allowed from companies whose business model is predicated on destroying nature and cooking our planet.