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Mar
25
Tasmania on board with NSW on political funding review
Filed Under Australian Politics, State Government
Tasmania’s Treasurer, Michael Aird, has agreed with NSW Premier Morris Iemma that political funding needs to be reviewed with the possibility of private political donations being disallowed. Aird stopped short of supporting Iemma’s total public funding in saying “there’s never been a great push in Tasmania for publicly-funded elections, but if there was going to be a national system, obviously we’d want to be involved in that discussion.”
Previously Prime Minister Rudd has expressed changing the political donations non-disclosure bracket from $10,000 back to $1,000. The previous Howard government when having total control of the Senate changed the non-disclosure bracket from $1,500 to $10,000.
It will be interesting to see how this spans out at the next COAG meeting.