The big government mateship dance: Linfox and Chris Bowen. By Craig Kelly.
Linfox’s Fox Group, owned by trucking magnate Lindsay Fox, donated $500,000 to the Australian Labor Party during the 2024-25 financial year. This contribution was part of a broader pattern of bipartisan giving by the logistics giant, which also provided an identical $500,000 donation to the Liberal Party in the same period.
This week, Chris Bowen handed $19.63 million of your hard-earned money straight to Linfox, the company owned by billionaire Lindsay Fox (net worth ~$6 billion), so they could buy 26 electric trucks.
That’s $775,000 per truck — taxpayer-funded. Nice.
If these electric trucks are so great as Bowen claims, why the hell does a billionaire need a $775,000 gift per vehicle from struggling taxpayers?
Why can’t Lindsay Fox reach into his own $6 billion pocket?
It’s rampant:
This is just the latest episode in Bowen‘s and Labor’s taxpayer-funded billionaire mateship program.
He’s already shovelled tens of millions to his other billionaire buddy, Twiggy Forrest.
Same script, different billionaire.
Jobs for the left:
Let’s be honest: Bowen isn’t “investing in the future.” He’s buying future job security.
He’s using public money to build favours and networks so that when Labor gets booted at the next election … he’ll land softly on some cushy board or consultancy gig funded by the very billionaires he’s busy enriching right now.
Hypocrisy:
Meanwhile, Labor has the gall to clutch their pearls and scream about Gina Rinehart supporting One Nation. The hypocrisy is beyond rancid.
- Billionaires getting taxpayer handouts from Labor? That’s “strategic industry policy.”
- Billionaires exercising free speech and supporting a conservative party? That’s a “threat to democracy.”
The big government mateship dance:
- Linfox donates $500,000 to the Labor Party.
- Labor minister uses government funds to subsidize Linfox $19.6m of trucks. (Linfox should have paid for them entirely on its own.)
- Linfox or someone will take good care of the Labor minister when he leaves politics.
Losers? Taxpayers, competitors to Linfox, trust and honesty, the free market and efficiency, the Australian economy, …