FW fact check: the above is incorrect. From the ABC
"The $700,000 was donated to both the Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) and the federal Liberal Party by New Hope and its Australian parent company, Washington H Soul Pattinson, over a three-year period. Multiple donations of $100,000, and a single payment of $250,000, were contributed by New Hope and its parent
between 2010-2011 and 2012-2013. Just this week, it was revealed that in the second half of 2013 New Hope again contributed, this time more modestly, with two donations totalling $3,400.Taken together these amounts make the coal miner one of the biggest donors to the conservative side of politics."
