The South Australian Government has released draft legislation that proposes to ban political donations and replace them with full public funding and elector...
South Australia is currently consulting on draft laws to cap political donations, but there are potential constitutional issues and practical shortcomings with the proposed laws. It doesn’t adequately kerb third-party campaigners, which could create a problem similar to America has with the creation of PACs/Super PACs. There have been previous High Court cases which have made it harder to block third-party campaigners, but Anne Twomey here thinks a more carefully-targeted law could be constructed to address this problem rather than ignoring it entirely.
South Australia is currently consulting on draft laws to cap political donations, but there are potential constitutional issues and practical shortcomings with the proposed laws. It doesn’t adequately kerb third-party campaigners, which could create a problem similar to America has with the creation of PACs/Super PACs. There have been previous High Court cases which have made it harder to block third-party campaigners, but Anne Twomey here thinks a more carefully-targeted law could be constructed to address this problem rather than ignoring it entirely.