The High Court has upheld a challenge to New South Wales’s election donation laws.
The challenge was brought by Unions NSW to the changes legislated by the O’Farrell government in 2012.
The effect of the challenge is to invalidate the changes and make it legal for unions and corporations to donate to political parties. Money spent on election advertising by unions affiliated to the ALP will now not be included in the ALP’s expenditure limits. [Read more…]