Millions of dollars in donations make their way to political parties. Much of it has been shrouded in secrecy.
Political parties in Australia received a total of 168 million dollars in donations for the 2019-20 financial year.
Today, the public got to see where some of that money came from, thanks to data from the Australian Electoral Commission.
Almost 50 per cent of all federal political donations over the last 12 months came from just four companies and one industry group.
The largest single donor was billionaire Clive Palmer's Mineralogy, which gave 5.9 million dollars to the mining magnate's own United Australia Party.
