Politics in Tasmania, in many ways, is damaged by our lack of any donations disclosure framework beyond the Commonwealth law.
These debates about Tasmania's weak political donations laws have been a feature of the Greens' discourse in this place going back a very long time.
The Government is clearly thinking about political donations but through the lens of electoral self-preservation.
The report of the review into Tasmania's political donations laws has been sitting on your Attorney-General's desk since late last year.
It’s good to see Labor come to the party on electoral donations law reform in Tasmania. It’s a pity, however, that they stopped at the door.
The Government appears to have walked away from any strengthening of Tasmania's nation-leading weakest donations disclosure laws.
Tasmanians worried about the state of our democracy would have been even more worried after listening to Premier Peter Gutwein on ABC Radio this morning.
Today’s Australian Electoral Commission annual donations returns reveal vested interests are still pouring funds in to the Liberal and Labor parties.
Rosalie Woodruff delivers a Second Reading speech for the Electoral Amendment Bill 2019.
Cassy O'Connor delivers a Second Reading speech for the Electoral Amendment Bill 2019.