The database side of AusPollieWatch records facts one at a time: a vote in Hansard, a receipt in the AEC Transparency Register, a stated position with a link attached. Articles is where those threads get tied together — longer pieces on the relationships, donor networks and career paths that individual records can't show on their own.
Analysis lives here, but it's built on the same standard as every card in the database: every claim needs a source that was actually retrieved, and readers draw their own conclusions. Where an article references someone in the database, it links to their record so you can check the votes and disclosures yourself.
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- The reality of One Nation's 130,000 immigration cap
The party's whole immigration pitch is one number. Its own website gives that number three different meanings, the promised 570,000 cut does not add up, and the only version that makes sense lands almost exactly on Labor's current skilled intake. - The selection play: Why Gina Rinehart is now backing One Nation
One Nation's biggest financial backer pioneered the mechanism for importing foreign labour at scale, and has argued for lower wages for over a decade. Following the money from the Roy Hill migration deal to a Cirrus jet, half-million-dollar cheques and a Mar-a-Lago photograph. - The insurance policy: Anthony Pratt's money, from Canberra to Mar-a-Lago
Australia's cardboard king is the biggest practitioner of the other donor strategy. Where Gina Rinehart picks winners, Anthony Pratt pays everyone: millions to Labor and the Coalition at home, one of the largest cheques behind Trump's 2024 campaign abroad, and a jobs pledge for every president who will stand next to him.