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'Personal' donations to the Liberal Party came from vaping lobby during debate over policy

Liberal senator Hollie Hughes pictured with Brian Marlow, the director of Legalise Vaping Australia, celebrating the delay of the vaping import ban. (Supplied)

A national vaping lobby group donated a total of $44,000 to the Liberal Party but the money was declared as personal gifts from its director on electoral returns. 

Four Corners has discovered the donations were made as part of a series of "roundtable events" with Coalition MPs and came amid furious disagreement within the former government over the future of e-cigarettes — or vapes — in Australia.

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