We won't be taken in by ADVANCE

Big business is funding "astroturf" (fake grassroots) lobby groups intent on starving our social institutions of the funding they need. 

They accuse scientists, universities, public media and artists of representing "woke elites" - trying to turn us against the workers in those fields who are just doing their jobs. Instead, they reckon "real" Australian voices are represented by Gina Rinehart, Clive Palmer, Rupert Murdoch and career politicians! 

​Groups like ​Advance​ spend millions of dollars to get their ads in front of your eyes. They exist to stir up outrage and division about migrants, unemployed people, trans kids and others. They import culture wars from the United States, inventing controversies to divide us from one another - to divide the working class.​

The purpose of all this division and noise is to make democracy seem hopeless. If we fear and suspect each other, we can't join together to win campaigns for the things we all need - great working conditions and wages, good schools and healthcare, honesty in media. The big business funders of ​Advance​ know that workers deserve more of the wealth we create - and their biggest fear is that we'll stand together to demand it. ​

We know Advance is funded by billionaire business owners - but half of their funding is kept secret.