Comment by dylan604
2 years ago
if this was an american decision, i'd suggest the natural stone lobby was better than the engineered stone lobby.
2 years ago
if this was an american decision, i'd suggest the natural stone lobby was better than the engineered stone lobby.
We really don't have the same overt paid lobbying here (aka bribery) that you have in the US.
Don't get me wrong our politicians are just as morally bankrupt and self-serving, but it doesn't happen at the same coordinated scale.
There's a substantial amount of lobbying, but the reporting requirements on it are laughably low. Agree it's not at the level of the US, though. The member for Kooyong was working to establish a bill about it. At the moment lobbyists have unfettered access to parliament house.
Lobbying and bribery are not the same at all. Equivocating them severely downplays the seriousness of bribery.
Lobbying means someone is trying to influence the government through things as simple as advertising campaigns. Those exist in AU.
Advertising is PR, not lobbying.
Lobbying often involves implicit or explicit offers of campaign funding, PAC support/opposition, and gifts that skirt the edge of what is legally bribery.
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It's so funny to me how many non-americans just assume their country is perfect because they apparently don't pay attention to their local news. Or maybe it's just nationalism, hard to say.
World-know news payment extortion from Meta?
Bunnings & Ikea recently stopped selling this product. My guess is Bunnings probably wanted to stop competition. So they probably lobbied the government for the full ban. After all, you can't have the competition selling a popular product that they don't. (Bunnings is like Australia's Home Depot or Lowe's)
Not to be confused with Lowe's in Australia, which sells clothing.
It was pushed by the trade unions, who currently install and work with both products.
it does sound like mining companies protecting their business