Australian Institute for Progress

The Australian Institute for Progress (AIP) is a think tank organisation which undertakes research and advocacy on federal and state political issues. Most of the AIP Board is connected to the Liberal National Party, and according to its Executive Director, the AIP is ‘ideologically centre-right’, with its criticisms favouring right-wing political parties: at [1]. The AIP receives funding from property developers, who are classed as ‘prohibited donors’ under the Electoral Act 1992 (Qld) and are therefore prohibited from making a ‘political donation’.