<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0b4738b0-19af-4ddd-9449-9cf3bc75784e/F492BD22-9A1A-494E-A871-417D0D5691A4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/letters/657365.html" href="http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/letters/657365.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bordermail.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/letters/657365.html"><P>IN Saturday’s The Border Mail, Sophie Mirabella is quoted as saying that “British American Tobacco has also made donations to the National Party and the Labor Party”.</p> <P>This is untrue. Of the $47,600 British American Tobacco donated to Australian political parties in the 2005-2006 reporting period, not one cent went to Labor or any other non-coalition party.</p> <P>British American tobacco did make $24,250 of donations to the NSW Labor party in the 2003-2004 reporting period.</p> <P>Since 1998 the Liberal and National parties have received a total of $791,565 in donations from British American Tobacco and Labor has received $191,500.</p> <P>Neither the Greens nor Democrats have ever accepted a cent from British American Tobacco.</p> <P>The statistics on which corporations donate what to which political parties are all available online at democracyforsale.org</p> <P>— KIERAN BENNETT,</p> <P>Wodonga</p> <P>Editor’s note: Mrs Mirabella did not indicate in which years Labor received donations from tobacco companies.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F492BD22-9A1A-494E-A871-417D0D5691A4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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