11 October 2020

Lobby Land: A Corporate Giants Dream and a Regulatory Hot Mess

As Australias government has grown in size and scope, so too has the desire to gain its favour, or avoid its wrath. This task increasingly falls to lobbyists. For representative democracy to work, constituents, including corporations, must be able to lobby their government. However, due to a failed regulatory regime, it is clear that undue influence, and even corrupt practices, are increasingly undermining Australias democracy, and its peoples faith in it.