Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Wong, representing the Prime Minister. Last week's annual donations data release revealed around $2 million in donations from fossil fuel companies and lobbyists to both big parties, including $960,000 of that to the Labor Party, and in that financial year four big donors were some of the highest-polluting facilities covered by the proposed safeguard mechanism: Woodside, BlueScope, Chevron and INPEX. Collectively, they donated over $200,000 to the Labor Party in 2021-22. How much access to the table did that buy when Labor was designing its weak safeguard mechanism legislation, and are those dirty donations why your safeguard mechanism backs new coal and gas?