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How much money is the federal Coalition receiving from the mining industry as part of its campaign against the RSPT?

The days of mass-membership political parties are over. Instead, it seems like we’ve decided to outsource politics to a new class: professional politicians.

While there are literally hundreds of examples of politicians either employing their relatives or having party colleagues take them on, very few have reached the scale of Victorian Premier John Brumby’s family.

Are we witnessing the drying up of political donations? Total political donations of $93.7 million fell 60% last year. Plus some of the more interesting donors uncovered by Crikey readers.

Despite a big drop in political donations in 2008-09, the AEC figures released yesterday still show how influence works — and fails to work — in Canberra. Even if the data isn’t that surprising.

The annual deluge of political donations data was dropped by the AEC today, containing a stack of interesting revelations. Stephen Mayne sifts through the dirt.

Every January, Crikey pres over the AEC’s annual political donations data to see what we can dig up. This year, we want your help.

The AEC has released the latest political party donations data, the Coalition is about to release its official climate change policy, and Parliament starts tomorrow with a fresh Newspoll. Brace yourselves, says Possum Comitatus: the election year has begun.

In a Press Club address, the Queensland leader has called for a total — or partial — ban on political donations, saying it will help revitalise political parties at a grassroots level.

Newspoll has produced some interesting results on the public’s perception of political funding, reports Possum Comitatus, with opinions on third-party donations splitting strongly along age and gender lines.

Who purchased access to senior Labor ministers at the ALP national conference? If the Senate would pass pending legislation, we might just find out.

Anna Bligh’s attempts to curtailing the influence of lobbyists and political donations will have some dramatic repercussions for all politicians. Will business fundraiser dinners be a thing of the past?

The proposed new rules to political donations may have signifcant effects on NGOs, since governments increasingly regard NGOs as direct competitors in the political system.

Businesses have forked out thousands to sit down to meetings with senior Rudd Government ministers, out of the gaze of the media, as an official part of the ALP National Conference.

Sarah Palin’s fundraising haul this year has mostly come from small, grass-roots donors. It may not give her huge economic clout going into 2012, but, says Nate Silver, as Obama discovered, small donors often turn into activists and voters.

Australia’s media proprietors have given the major political parties around $1.6m in donations in the last two years.

A number of NSW political donors may have failed to disclose the full extent of their political donations, a comparison of NSW and Commonwealth electoral disclosure data shows.

The Labor Party will again reap hundreds of thousands of dollars from business with its Budget Night dinner this year.

Big dollar big business donors are demanding Liberal Party renewal, according to a column from Glenn Milne.

When the helium-driven investment bank Babcock & Brown collapsed into the arms of the administrator last Friday, the major political parties lowered their flags to half mast, writes Alex Mitchell.