Serena Lillywhite, the chief executive of Transparency International Australia, said the Australian public clearly believed the risk of "undue influence" was real and "driving increasing corruption concerns".
The possibility of money influencing politics is real enough for Bill Clinton to vow to (maybe) stop accepting foreign donations should Hillary be elected.
But her influence is definitely real.
However, while the challenges of identifying causal relationships in social networks from observational data are still being addressed, experiments strongly support the conclusion that peer influence is a real phenomenon [ 17- 19].
"There has been an implication that these prerogative powers are quaint and sweet but actually there is real influence and real power, albeit unaccountable," said John Kirkhope, the legal scholar who fought the freedom of information case to access the papers.
This talent we men posses makes me wonder if there is real "influence currency" here?
That, in my book, is real influence.
He added that the podcast's influence on the comedy world is real.
