Letter
Will we out Advance?
We are indebted to investigative writers like John Queripel, Anthony Klan and Michael West Media, to name a few, who provide forensic exposes of elite-funded Advance.
As in the US, the funders of Advance are far from household names but are nevertheless deeply invested in policy areas, especially climate action. They, and members of the Coalition, claim they are fighting a “woke elite”. They attempt — sometimes successfully — to divide and distract by igniting spot fires around which bathroom to use or what books children should or shouldn’t read.
Donor Gina Rinehart claimed earlier this year that students are being taught “propaganda rather than facts and woke causes instead of understanding, rationale and logic” and that “primary industries were being ignored in schools”.
The connections between Advance donors and the fossil fuel industry are inescapable but not revealed in the mainstream media. The Murdoch press crusades against Labor with a fire-hose of mis- and disinformation: from turbines killing wales, killing birds and causing cancer to blaming high energy prices on renewables to advocating nuclear power in order to reach some mythical emissions target.
The industrial-strength campaign from right-wing elites will continue. Can Labor, with the help of left-leaning media, get ahead of them?
— Fiona Colin from Melbourne