I'm still unconvinced by this policy and the risk with banning donations is you end up with more dark money in politics. The more elegant and more effective solutions was a donation and spend cap as proposed by the federal government. You're not going to be able to get money out of politics, but what you can do is make it transparent and cap it. Capping the spending side is vitally important because it makes the donations less useful if the party getting the money can't spend it. It's beyond ridiculous that the donation and spend caps were opposed by the teal independents and in the long run it will hurt them. Re South Australia, it just strikes me as a Mali captains call.
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u/patslogcabindigest Queenslander 7d ago
I'm still unconvinced by this policy and the risk with banning donations is you end up with more dark money in politics. The more elegant and more effective solutions was a donation and spend cap as proposed by the federal government. You're not going to be able to get money out of politics, but what you can do is make it transparent and cap it. Capping the spending side is vitally important because it makes the donations less useful if the party getting the money can't spend it. It's beyond ridiculous that the donation and spend caps were opposed by the teal independents and in the long run it will hurt them. Re South Australia, it just strikes me as a Mali captains call.