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…]
This is the election funding and disclosure report for the 2010 federal election.
The report was published by the Australian Electoral Commission and contains detailed statistics on election donations during the 2010 election.
The report shows that the AEC made total payments of $53,163,385.36 ($53.1 million) to candidates and parties in the 2010 election. The payments were based on a rate of $2.31191 for each vote received by a candidate or party, provided they reached the threshold of 4% of the primary vote.
Amongst political parties, the ALP received $22.2 million, the Liberal Party $21 million, the National Party $2.4 million and the Australian Greens ($7.2 million). [Read more…]
The Australian government has released a Green Paper on electoral reform.
The paper deals with election donations, funding and expenditure.
In this speech, Australian Democrats Senator Andrew Murray lashed the Howard government over its changes to the electoral system.
Second Reading : Electoral & Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity & Other Measures) Bill 2006
Senator MURRAY (Western Australia) (9.21 a.m.) – In making my remarks on the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2006, I would like to be on the record as stating that this bill represents yet another appalling outcome of coalition control of the Senate. It is a bill that in many respects blatantly seeks to advantage the coalition. From the words electoral integrity in the title of this bill, one would assume its provisions are motivated by an intention to improve our representative democracy, to improve the democratic and electoral rights of Australians. [Read more…]
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