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State Capture, as defined by the World Bank;
“State capture is the exercise of power by private actors — through control over resources, threat of violence, or other forms of influence — to shape policies or implementation in service of their narrow interests”


Real world examples
State capture is used by many different industries, and this report deeply investigates two of the worst examples in Australia.
Fossil fuel industries
“We know more about energy policy than the government does. We know more about industry policy than the government does. We know where every skeleton in the closet is – most of them, we buried.”
Fossil industry lobbyist
Arms industry
“Despite the effort and priority accorded to maintaining a healthy local defence industry, there’s surprisingly little hard data in the public domain about the size and shape of the sector.”
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2017
The report also sets out four recommendations on how to confront state capture and restore our democracy.