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Property tycoon Lang Walker hasn’t let the pandemic slow him down. The Australian billionaire has shrewdly used the downturn to grow his Sydney-based Walker Corp.’s pipeline of planned projects by 36% in the past 12 months.
Advertisement The property industry has ramped up its political donations to a fresh peak that takes its total funding to $54.2 million over the past two decades, finds new analysis that calls for curbs on the way big companies buy influence. The donations rose to $5.7 million in 2019 in a long-term trend towards greater spending on the major political parties, handing federal Liberals about twice as much as Labor. Westfield co-founder Frank Lowy is among the property developers leading the list of donors over two decades. Credit:Louise Kennerley Billionaire property developers including West...