Australia’s biggest corporations—banks, Qantas, and gas giants—are flying under the radar of official lobbying registers, leaving everyday Australians in the dark about who’s shaping policy. Only third-party firms must register, not in-house lobbyists, meaning over half of the top 100 and 70% of the top 300 companies—worth trillions—are invisible to public scrutiny. Transparency advocates demand all lobbyists, including ex-politicians, be registered and call for faster access to ministerial diaries, while the government remains resistant despite recent small wins on parliamentary access passes.

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