The political donation laws allow individuals and organisations to hand over as much cash as they want to as many political parties as they choose.
Kate Griffiths from the Grattan Institute has studied the power of political donors and said more transparency in who provides financial support to parties was needed. "They [donors] have that opportunity to influence because donations do clearly buy access and they've also got the power to influence because major donors are [a] really important source of funds for political parties," she said.
At the moment, political parties only have to disclose donations above $14,000 and Senator Farrell wants that reduced to $1,000.
Clive Palmer is a broad church all by himself. Imagine if him and Vagina Reinhardt got married ?
Not just a cap, disclosure every 3 months
Hidden criminality amongst the ethnically White European community of Australians like Palmer is rife. Yet there is no European Crime Squad to investigate them!
And election spend cap please - with ban on official use of social media - that would start to level the playing field newdemocracyAUS transparency equity auspol
political donations are nothing but bribes all of them carry a quid pro quo