Sneaky, excessive and unjustified: why Labor’s electoral reforms are vulnerable to constitutional challenge | Anne Twomey
A political donor will be able to donate up to $640,000 in a year. How is this taking the money out of politics?
Jack Lang was fond of saying that you should always put your money on self-interest. But when it comes to campaign finance laws, politicians use public money, not their own, to back their self-interest in preserving their own power.
The current bill before the Australian parliament about campaign finance is a mixed bag of worthy reforms, political manipulation and the overfunding of political parties at taxpayer expense. Aspects of it are also vulnerable to constitutional challenge.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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