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Political donations banned in South Australia | 7.30 (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

On its face, this is shockingly good legislation that does a much better job than what is being done/talked about at a federal level of truly levelling the playing field, not giving the two major parties a huge advantage over minor parties, independents, and yet-to-be-established parties.

Still, this is just one interview with someone obviously biased. It'll be interesting to see analysis of this from less partisan figures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Here's some criticism from The Australia Institute back in November last year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

no public inquiry and a secretive consultation process

Ick. Always a bad start.

MPs and political staffers can still pay a “levy” to their party. Historically, these levies have been worth more than the large political donations coming from vested interests and wealthy donors.

Nominated entities that can continue to donate to the major parties.

Ok the points the article was making up until here were, in my opinion, unconvincing. But this is huge. As Professor Twomey said about the federal bill this enormously favours the big established parties.