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Do Greens and crossbenchers who claim that transparency
and integrity is at the heart of their reason for entering Parliament in the
first place hear themselves?
In the past few days they have mounted self-serving arguments against
proposed electoral reforms that the major parties look set to come together to support.
The reforms include caps for how much money wealthy individuals can donate, caps on the amount candidates can spend in individual electorates to prevent the equivalent of an arms race,
and a $90million limit on what any party can spend at an election - actually less than the
major parties currently spend.
The proposed new laws also include lower disclosure thresholds for donations,
thus increasing the transparency of who makes political donations
in the first place.
So the wealthy wont be able to hide behind anonymity while using their cash to influence election outcomes - and the extent to which they can use their wealth
at all will be limited.
The bill will further improve transparency by also increasing the speed and frequency that disclosures of donations need to
be made.
At present we have the absurd situation in which donations get made - but you only find out the
details of who has given what to whom many months later,
well after elections are won and lost.
In other words, what is broadly being proposed will
result in much greater transparency and far less
big money being injected into campaigning by the wealthy.
Teal Kylea Tink claimed the major parties were 'running scared' with the policy and warned the
reform would 'not stop the rot'
Greens senate leader Larissa Waters (left) fired a warning shot - saying if it serves
only the major parties 'it's a rort, not reform'. Teal independent ACT senator David Pocock (right) said: 'What seems to be happening is a major-party stitch-up'
Anyone donating more than $1,000 to a political party, as
opposed to $16,000 under the current rules, will need to disclose having done so.
And how much they can donate will be capped.
Yet the Greens and Teals have quickly condemned the proposed new laws, labeling them a 'stitch-up', 'outrageous' and 'a rort, not a reform'.
They have lost their collective minds after finding out that Labor's proposal just
might secure the support of the opposition.
I had to double check who was criticising what exactly before even starting to write this column.
Because I had assumed - incorrectly - that these important transparency
measures stamping out the influence of the wealthy must have been proposed by the virtue-signalling Greens or the corruption-fighting
Teals, in a united crossbench effort to drag the major parties closer to accountability.
More fool me.
The bill, designed to clean up a rotten system, is being put forward by Labor and is opposed by a growing cabal of
crossbenchers.
It makes you wonder what they have to hide. Put simply, the
Greens and Teals doth protest too much on this issue.
Labor is thought to be trying to muscle out major political donors such as Clive Palmer
Another potential target of the laws is businessman and Teal funder Simon Holmes à Court
The Greens have taken massive donations in the past, contrary to their irregular calls to tighten donations
rules (Greens leader Adam Bandt and Senator Mehreen Faruqi are
pictured)
The major parties have long complained about the influence the likes of
Simon Holmes à Court wields behind the scenes amongst the
Teals.
And we know the Greens have taken massive donations from the wealthy in the
past, contrary to their irregular calls to tighten donations rules.
Now that tangible change has been proposed, these bastions of virtue
are running a mile from reforms that will curtail dark art of
political donations.
The Labor government isn't even seeking for these transparency rules to take effect immediately,
by the way. It won't be some sort of quick-paced power play before the
next election designed to catch the crossbench out.
They are aiming for implementation by 2026, giving everyone enough time to absorb and understand the changes before preparing for
them.
Don't get me wrong, no deal has yet been done between Labor and the Coalition. I imagine the opposition want to go over
the laws with a fine tooth comb.
As they should - because it certainly isn't beyond Labor to include hidden one-party advantages in the proposed design which would create loopholes only the
unions are capable of taking advantage of, therefore disadvantaging the Coalition electorally in the years to come.
But short of such baked-in trickiness scuttling a
deal to get these proposed laws implemented, the crossbench should offer their support, not
cynical opposition, to what is being advocated for.
They might even be able to offer something worthwhile that could be incorporated in the package.
To not do so exposes their utter hypocrisy and blowhard false commentary about being in politics to 'clean things
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