Figures released today by the Australian Electoral Commission demonstrate the increasingly urgent need to reform Tasmania’s political donations laws.
It would be instructive to the committee to know where the potential capacity is to build a large steel hull vessel, like a Spirit replacement.
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.
On the International Day of Democracy, Premier Peter Gutwein dismissed public concerns about the need for political donations law reform in Parliament today.
The report of the review into Tasmania's political donations laws has been sitting on your Attorney-General's desk since late last year.
On statewide radio this morning, former Labor Premier and mouthpiece for Federal Hotels, Paul Lennon, called for real time disclosure of political donations.
Late last night this House this passed the major projects legislation with only the Greens voting against it.
Tasmanians are passionate defenders of their place. Communities having a say has always been, and should remain, central to planning laws.
