As the climate, cost of living and housing crisis deepen, our governments continue to enrich the privileged few while refusing to take real action.

These aren’t just political decisions – they’re the calculated choices of a system captured by dark money, shaping policies that benefit the ultra-wealthy at our expense.

They call themselves “grassroots movements” but they’re billionaire-funded political operations. They claim to represent “common sense” but they’re pushing an agenda that puts corporate profits ahead of people. Welcome to the billionaire influence machine threatening our democracy.

From fossil fuel giants pouring millions into elections to shadowy organizations masquerading as community groups, our expert panel, facilitated by Mandy Nolan, will expose how the ultra-wealthy are working overtime to protect their profits at our expense – and most importantly, what we can do to fight back.

Join Senator David Shoebridge and Royce Kurmelovs, journalist and author of SLICK: How Big Oil Captured Australia, with Mandy Nolan in a conversation that will unravel the web of corporate power buying our political future.

Together they will dig into the dark web of vested interest, and the billionaire hands that pull the strings of our democracy.