Labor fund-raising arm to be reborn under new name amid IBAC scrutiny
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Victorian Labor’s lucrative fund-raising vehicle Progressive Business is closing down, with the Andrews government’s tough donation laws and probing by the state’s anti-corruption commission making its cash-for-access model unworkable.
But documents filed with the state government reveal the controversial entity is to be reborn as Energise Victoria, a money spinner still associated with Labor and other progressive causes and a likely test for the new electoral rules.
Daniel Andrews has been a prominent figure at Progressive Business functions over the last 20 years