@leighjones0212 A bloke in Victoria had a staff member collapse on site rang the vic ambo’s, 2 hour wait, he drove her to hospital lucky he did major internal bleeding could have died…….Victorian is a failed state
“If people in Australia are scared or forbidden to freely express themselves, then those values are eroded. I am here to fight for all Australians to ensure that such a dark day never comes.”
Amen Senator @PaulineHansonOz 🇦🇺
@JustKimfromoz I’m a Pauline supporter
But
This stuff is just stupid
She has very few candidates, hardly any state leaders and while I hope this happens…………it’s the Main Street media plotting against her unfortunately
THE LABOR MONEY LOOP.
Let me show you how the loop works. Every figure here is from the AEC register.
Step one. The unions donate directly to Labor. The CFMEU has given Labor $2,788,155 across its various divisions. The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union: $2,861,140. The Electrical Trades Union: $2,044,650. The Australian Workers Union: $988,191. Total union direct donations to Labor across all years in the primary data: $18,457,271.
Step two. Labor wins government. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, a Labor-controlled ministry, paid the ACTU $10,577,005 in 2024-25. In 2023-24 it paid them $6,465,199. The Department of Industry paid them another $963,998 in 2024-25. Total government payments to the ACTU across all years in the register: $20,790,026.
Step three. The ACTU spends the money on elections. In 2024-25 the ACTU spent $5,425,881 on electoral expenditure. In 2018-19, the year Labor needed to win, the ACTU spent $20,808,774 on electoral campaigns. Total ACTU electoral expenditure across all years, $34,345,497.
The unions fund Labor. Labor funds the ACTU. The ACTU campaigns to re-elect Labor. The government then funds the ACTU again.
Now I’ll carry the other argument, because that’s how I do things. The government payments to the ACTU are for legitimate workplace relations services, safety programs, Fair Work representation, training. The electoral spending comes from member fees, not government grants. These are legally separate streams and the ACTU is not the only organisation that receives government contracts while also engaging in advocacy.
But here is the structural question the data raises.
The same organisation that receives $10.5 million from a Labor government in one year spends $5.4 million backing Labor’s re-election in the same year. No individual needs to pick up a phone. No instruction needs to be given. The incentive structure does the work automatically.
And the unions that built the financial pipeline to Labor in the first place have donated $18.4 million directly to the party across the full dataset.
This is not a conspiracy. It is a financial architecture. It is in the public register. And it has been operating for decades.
None of it is illegal. That’s the problem.
Cold hard facts. Sourced. Corrected when wrong.
What’s your thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
Sources:
AEC Transparency Register, Donations_Made.csv — union donations to Labor, all years; Detailed_Discretionary_Benefits.csv — government payments to ACTU all years; Significant_Third_Party_Returns.csv — ACTU electoral expenditure all years. Total government payments to ACTU: $20,790,026. Total union direct donations to Labor: $18,457,271. Total ACTU electoral expenditure: $34,345,497. All figures computed 25 July 2026 from primary data.