Advance Australia doubled donations to raise nearly $5m ahead of voice to parliament referendum

Documents lodged with corporate regulator also show the rightwing advocacy group spent $3.4m campaigning against Indigenous voice proposal

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The conservative advocacy group powering" the no campaign almost doubled its donations to raise nearly $5m in the lead up to the historic referendum.

Advance Australia, a once relatively obscure answer to the progressive activist group Get Up, raised $4.9m in donations over the 2022-23 financial year, its most recent financial report lodged with the corporate regulator, Asic, shows. This represents a near doubling on the previous year's figure of $2.5m.

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