In a call for calm,Labor elder John Watkins said the controversy “risks the people of NSW losing a fine man” from public service.
Jo Haylen says she won’t resign over revelations her hand-picked transport secretary personally donated to her election campaign.
Business leaders paid $10,000 a head to dine with the government’s two most senior members.
IBAC has suggested a ban on donations from risky industries like property developers – but Labor and the Nationals argued against such a move just this month.
On the face of it,reforming the rules governing political donations sounds good. But be careful what you wish for.
Labor and the Coalition enjoy special benefits in donations laws that should be removed to eliminate “entrenching incumbency”,a leading integrity body says.
The fine-print manoeuvre is potentially substantial:based on his campaign’s fund-raising figures,it may already have sent $2.25 million to the PAC that can pay his legal fees.
Labor’s Don Farrell shrugged off the teal movement’s concern that new election spending rules will stymie independents.
Greens MP Brad Pettitt will introduce a near exact reproduction of Labor’s own Electoral Amendment Bill it introduced in parliament in June 2020.
Transparency campaigners say an overhaul of campaign finance laws is overdue and would level the playing field before the next federal election,due to be held in or before 2025.
Annastacia Palaszczuk told Queenslanders recent electoral reforms would stop them worrying about whether “money talks”. Years on,it’s sure doing something.