The Liberal and Labor parties must come clean with any political donations they’ve received from gambling industry interests in the past 18 months.
Tasmanians have been deliberately kept in the dark for too long as the major parties rake in big money from their corporate donors, who most certainly aren’t donating .....
When Parliament resumes on 19 November, the Greens will introduce an amendment bill to strengthen political donations transparency.
At your state conference a fortnight ago, Liberal Party treasurer Rod Bramich told members, 'It won't be business as usual under Tasmania's new donation disclosure laws'. He also implored everyone to up their efforts and get as much money in as possible before the laws come into effect next year.
Democracy, when it is functioning, is a beautiful thing. It is also increasingly under threat and very rare when it comes to talking about what is happening on the planet.
For too long Tasmania has been known, correctly, as the secret state. We have had millions in dirty money flowing into the major parties' coffers without ever having to be declared publicly and dirty elections that treat Tasmanian voters like mushrooms.
The Liberal and Labor parties have so far maintained a cloak of secrecy over the donations they’ve received during this election campaign, but it’s not too late for them to come clean and be transparent with Tasmanians.
Tasmanian Labor have yet again outdone the Liberals in covering up the source of political donations they've received. Labor disclosed less than 2% of their income in the last reporting year.
Tasmania will finally have political donations laws but they will be the weakest in the nation
The AEC's new year electoral returns data has once again highlighted the opaque, corrupted nature of political donations in Tasamania