The biggest third-party spender was Clive Palmer's Mineralogy, which spent almost $53 million into May's election; and almost $200 million on all its political campaigning in the last financial year.

Welcome to SBS News in Easy English, I'm Biwa Kwan. People around the world have farewelled 2024 and celebrated the arrival of 2025. Poor weather did not deter crowds in some cities from watching the ...