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<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">Koch Ties Among Bjorn Lomborg's Fan Network</h2>So what is the <a href="https://www.taxpayers.org.au/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); outline: none;">Australian Taxpayers' Alliance</a> and who is Tim Andrews?Andrews is a graduate of the Koch Associate Program in the US – an effort by the billionaire Republican activist Koch brothers to train activists to push their free market libertarian ideals.The Koch’s and the foundations they control have pushed millions into organisation that push climate science denial and campaign to block laws cutting greenhouse gas emissions.Andrews also spent time as an intern at the Koch-linked Cato Institute. In a 2011 article in the right-wing <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/7243323/meet-the-man-behind-the-anticarbon-tax-lobby/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); outline: none;">The Spectator</a> magazine, Andrews was described as one of the “masterminds” of Australia’s anti-carbon tax protests of that year.When Andrews created the stopgillardscarbontax.com website to help drive the 2011 protests, he recruited Cato Institute climate science denialist Patrick Michaels as an advisor.Michaels, who once admitted that about 40 per cent of the funding for his work came from the fossil fuel industry, is now a member of an <a href="https://www.taxpayers.org.au/academic-fellows/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); outline: none; line-height: 1.1em;">academic advisory board at the ATA</a>.