Adam Bandt accuses Labor and Coalition of aiming to ‘rig’ electoral funding system to make it harder for Greens or independents to compete fairly
Greens leader Adam Bandt told the party’s national conference that Australia’s ‘two party system is dying’ but Labor and the Coalition ‘won’t go down without a dirty fight’ involving electoral funding.Greens leader Adam Bandt told the party’s national conference that Australia’s ‘two party system is dying’ but Labor and the Coalition ‘won’t go down without a dirty fight’ involving electoral funding.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “Donation caps for challengers, increased funding for incumbents, and a green light for dark corporate money to flow to the political class,” he said. There is currently no limit on how much can be donated to political parties, though donations above $16,300 must be declared. Labor is yet to indicate the value at which it would cap donations, but plans to lower the disclosure threshold to $1,000 and introduce real-time reporting.
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