Published: August 12, 2021
The leader of the New Liberals believes the bills are ‘directly aimed at us’, while environment group fears ‘it would have the effect of silencing community voices’
New political parties in Australia would require 1,500 members to be registered and would be blocked from using names similar to existing parties, under changes proposed by the coalition government.
The assistant minister for electoral matters, Ben Morton, on Thursday introduced four electoral bills into federal parliament to crack down on multiple voting and violence at polls, lower disclosure thresholds for political campaigners and raise the bar for party registration.
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