A $1.1 million war chest of donations from rich benefactors and ordinary people helped independent Zali Steggall topple Tony Abbott at the federal election.
Below the disclosure threshold, Steggall’s pro-climate action campaign was powered by $754,251 from 1369 donors. Mr Abbott was personally targeted in posters which featured his face with the “c--t” and “Pell” written on it, and a GetUp advertisement depicted him failing to save a person drowning person at the beach.Jessica Hromas
JacquelineMaley I am so pleased the Australian population finally gathered the money to directly target such a toxic political leader like Abbott. I am pleased I donated and helped and Dutton should be next. Liberals have been doing this for years yet the herald does not report it
JacquelineMaley Glad to hear it. Need a few more backers like this to come forward next election and save is from extinction.
JacquelineMaley I’m so glad you won, Zali!
JacquelineMaley Congratulations & thank you to all those perceptive & generous people. Your country owes you a huge debt of gratitude. zalisteggall 🙏 WaringahVotes
JacquelineMaley Oh yeah... I’m sure Tony Abbott has alwAys kept his nose clean and never asked money from wealthy benefactors.... NOT!! What a storm in a tea cup, undoubtedly spearheaded by Toppled Tony 🤔🙄🙄.
JacquelineMaley They own Zali
JacquelineMaley No. The war chest SANK Abbott. A simple, past tense verb not a past participle. Jeez, get it right !
JacquelineMaley And elected an impotent , lost stuffed chook as the good burghers representative ! What a waste !
JacquelineMaley The media push climate narrative to appease wealthy investors seeking alternative energy subsidies. There is nothing positive about wind farms.
JacquelineMaley Sad that it takes massive amounts of money to sway Public Opinion , especially here , Australia s worst ever P.M , probably most useless ever Politician
JacquelineMaley Abbott sunk Abbott. No one wanted to put up with him for one more term.
JacquelineMaley Worth every cent.. zalisteggall has been a fantastic independent, who campaigned on a platform of taking climate change seriously, and has delivered on that. auspol
JacquelineMaley Buying your MP literally, sad days Australia 🙄🙄🙄
JacquelineMaley Didn’t they want to vote an empty chair
JacquelineMaley He sank himself - can’t believe he got away with putting ph in jail..
JacquelineMaley Small change that pales into insignificance when you consider the Alan Jones 2GB behemoth behind Abbott's champagne...err...campaign. No, it was public opinion and his ineptitude that inevitably sunk him. She played Abbott's game fairly and won.
JacquelineMaley So all I get from this is that elections can be bought. Unethical! Money talks again.
JacquelineMaley 'War chest'? Seriously, smh?
JacquelineMaley So the rich are buying seats in Parliament ? So it’s ok for them to do it but not Clive Palmer , not a supporter of the latter , but what’s the difference?! Hypocrisy.
JacquelineMaley zalisteggall is the poster girl for a generation that is destroying the planet to save it.
JacquelineMaley All from “old white rich privileged men” and women. Won’t worry them as much when the poorer people have to pay for their indulgences. Any wind turbines yet on the northern beaches? Steggi still driving her SUV?
JacquelineMaley Worth every cent.
JacquelineMaley Good on Ms Steggall. We’ll never know how much was thrown in to support Abbott but I suggest very little as the Libs and their IPA extremist masters probably wanted to get rid of him. Abbott should have tried harder.
JacquelineMaley Abbott was sunk anyway, for 25 years he ignored the needs of his electorate, then when a new 'threat' appeared on the horizon he tried to fix it by talking about public toilets !!!!! What a great lump he is.
JacquelineMaley And she has helped her electorate lots!...does she really exist?
JacquelineMaley They invested in a dud. Money well spent.
JacquelineMaley So the money was spent in sinking Abbott? So what happened after that?
JacquelineMaley Then whines about Palmer buying the Election. Hypocrites.
JacquelineMaley Congratulations on flushing it all down the toilet. Useless MP, has zero power. Next federal election she’ll follow Phelps into the wilderness auspol
JacquelineMaley Well well well.... all pushing renewable climate hoax subsidies. Won't work next time. auspol
JacquelineMaley where is Fed ICAC that she talked about? she has done nothing much to ban new coal mines What about more gas tax as we r getting swindled Norway&Qatar r getting 10x more
JacquelineMaley No, he sunk himself, people felt compelled to donate to help him do that.
JacquelineMaley he sunk himself
JacquelineMaley Sank, you morons.
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