Exclusive: After supporting 23 candidates in 2022, including six successful teal independents, fundraising body to support 35 campaigns in this year’s ballot
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Climate 200 will help bankroll independent candidates in four Labor seats – including one held by a cabinet minister – among 35 campaigns it will back at the federal election.
The fundraising vehicle’s final list of target electorates confirms it will support former journalist and anti-salmon farming campaigner Peter George in his bid to unseat the agriculture minister, Julie Collins, in Franklin in southern Tasmania.
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/16/climate-200-candidates-labor-federal-election-2025
