Published: September 27, 2018
States’ ability to protect against ‘the dangers of political money’ undermined, experts say
State bans on political donations from developers and stricter caps on donations, expenditure and disclosure will be overridden by new Coalition amendments to a campaign finance bill, academics have warned.
Prof Joo-Cheong Tham, of the University of Melbourne, has said the amendments would undermine states’ ability to “protect the integrity of representative government from the dangers of political money”, thwarting cases such as the Operation Spicer investigation into the New South Wales Liberal party allegedly taking developer donations in breach of state laws.
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