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Lobbying and bribery are not the same at all. Equivocating them severely downplays the seriousness of bribery. Lobbying means someone is trying to influence th
by kortilla 3y ago
Lobbying and bribery are not the same at all. Equivocating them severely downplays the seriousness of bribery.
Lobbying means someone is trying to influence the government through things as simple as advertising campaigns. Those exist in AU.
- shkkmo 3y agoAdvertising is PR, not lobbying. Lobbying often involves implicit or explicit offers of campaign funding, PAC support/opposition, and gifts that skirt the edge of what is legally bribery.
- ghiculescu 3y agolol we certainly have lobbying in Australia, they just apparently keep a lower profile than American lobbyists do.
- kortilla 3y agoNo, lobbying is “attempting to influence the government”. Advertising about proposed bills is 100% lobbying. Without any funding to the politician involved, a lobbyist’s job is to convince the politician of voting a particular way. A sleazy lobbyist may try money in indirect ways for/against the politician, but a regular one will try to raise awareness through advertising and public pressure. It’s all lobbying.
- shkkmo 3y agoLobbyists may engage in PR activity, but that does not make PR activity lobbying. Lobbying has a pretty clear definition which you are trying to stretch here. Let me put it this way: Airing an ad about a government rep or piece of legislation is PR or advertising. Using the threat or promise of airing that ad to try to talk a politician into doing something is lobbying.