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Do Greens and crossbenchers who claim that transparency <br> <br> and integrity is at the heart of their reason for <br> <br> entering Parliament in the first place hear themselves?<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> In the past few days they have mounted self-serving arguments <br> <br> against proposed electoral reforms that the major parties <br> <br> look set to come together to support.<br> <br> <br> <br> The reforms include caps for how much money wealthy individuals can donate, <br> <br> caps on the amount candidates can spend in individual electorates to <br> <br> prevent the equivalent of an arms race, and a $90million limit on what any party <br> <br> can spend at an election - actually less than the major <br> <br> parties currently spend.<br> <br> <br> <br> The proposed new laws also include lower disclosure thresholds for donations, thus increasing the transparency of who makes political donations <br> <br> in the first place.<br> <br> <br> <br> So the wealthy wont be able to hide behind anonymity while using their cash to influence election outcomes - <br> <br> and the extent to which they can use their wealth at all will be limited.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The bill will further improve transparency by also increasing <br> <br> the speed and frequency that disclosures of donations need to be made.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> At present we have the absurd situation in which donations get made <br> <br> - but you only find out the details of who has given what to <br> <br> whom many months later, well after elections are won and <br> <br> lost.<br> <br> <br> <br> In other words, what is broadly being proposed will result in much greater transparency <br> <br> and far less big money being injected into campaigning by the wealthy.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Teal Kylea Tink claimed the major parties were 'running scared' with the policy and warned the reform would 'not stop the rot' <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Greens senate leader Larissa Waters (left) fired a warning <br> <br> shot - saying if it serves only the major parties 'it's a <br> <br> rort, not reform'. Teal independent ACT senator David Pocock (right) said: 'What seems to be happening is <br> <br> a major-party stitch-up'<br> <br> <br> <br> Anyone donating more than $1,000 to a political party,<br> <br> as opposed to $16,000 under the current rules, will <br> <br> need to disclose having done so. And how much they can donate will <br> <br> be capped.<br> <br> <br> <br> Yet the Greens and Teals have quickly condemned the proposed new laws, labeling them a 'stitch-up',<br> <br> 'outrageous' and 'a rort, not a reform'. <br> <br> <br> <br> They have lost their collective minds after finding out that Labor's proposal just might secure the support of the opposition.<br> <br> <br> <br> I had to double check who was criticising what exactly before even starting to write this column.<br> <br> <br> <br> Because I had assumed - incorrectly - that these important transparency measures stamping out the influence of <br> <br> the wealthy must have been proposed by the virtue-signalling Greens or the corruption-fighting Teals, <br> <br> in a united crossbench effort to drag the major parties closer to accountability.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> More fool me.<br> <br> <br> <br> The bill, designed to clean up a rotten system, is being put forward by Labor and <br> <br> is opposed by a growing cabal of crossbenchers.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> It makes you wonder what they have to hide. Put simply, the Greens and Teals doth protest too much on this issue.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Labor is thought to be trying to muscle out major <br> <br> political donors such as Clive Palmer<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Another potential target of the laws is businessman and Teal funder Simon Holmes à Court<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The Greens have taken massive donations in the past, contrary to their <br> <br> irregular calls to tighten donations rules (Greens leader Adam Bandt and Senator Mehreen Faruqi <br> <br> are pictured)<br> <br> <br> <br> The major parties have long complained about the influence the likes of Simon Holmes <br> <br> à Court wields behind the scenes amongst the Teals. <br> <br> <br> <br> And we know the Greens have taken massive donations from the wealthy in the past, contrary to their irregular calls to tighten donations rules.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Now that tangible change has been proposed, these bastions of virtue are <br> <br> running a mile from reforms that will curtail dark art of political donations.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The Labor government isn't even seeking for these transparency rules to <br> <br> take effect immediately, by the way. It won't be some <br> <br> sort of quick-paced power play before the next election designed to <br> <br> catch the crossbench out.<br> <br> <br> <br> They are aiming for implementation by 2026, giving everyone enough time to <br> <br> absorb and understand the changes before preparing for them.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Don't get me wrong, no deal has yet been done between Labor <br> <br> and the Coalition. I imagine the opposition want to go over the laws with a fine <br> <br> tooth comb.<br> <br> <br> <br> As they should - because it certainly isn't beyond Labor <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> But short of such baked-in trickiness scuttling a deal to get these <br> <br> proposed laws implemented, the crossbench should offer <br> <br> their support, not cynical opposition, to what is being advocated for.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> They might even be able to offer something worthwhile that could be incorporated <br> <br> in the package.<br> <br> <br> <br> To not do so exposes their utter hypocrisy and blowhard <br> <br> false commentary about being in politics to 'clean things <br> <br> up'.<br> <br> <br> <br> Also visit my web-site ร้านดอกไม้บรรยากาศอบอุ่น - https://Ecommk.com/question/the-one-most-essential-factor-its-worthwhile-to-find-out-about-%e0%b8%a3%e0%b9%89%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%99%e0%b8%94%e0%b8%ad%e0%b8%81%e0%b9%84%e0%b8%a1%e0%b9%89%e0%b8%a7%e0%b8%b4%e0%b8%99%e0%b9%80/
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