THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia splashed more than $770,000 on political parties in the 2018/19 financial year, data from the Australia Electoral Commission (AEC) reveals.
The Australian Labor Party received the bulk of the Guild's political donations in the lead up to last year's Federal election ($590,811), while the coalition parties received a total of $182,980, with the AEC recording no donations to minor parties such as, One Nation or the Greens.
Australian Medical Association Western Australia Branch President, Dr Andrew Miller, questioned the Guild's motivation for making the donations in a post on Twitter.
"What does it buy?" he asked, before adding "smells like sports rorts".
A Guild spokesperson dismissed Miller's tweet as a "weird conspiracy theory".
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