Climate 200 executive director Byron Fay warned electoral spending caps could be used to limit the ability of teal candidates to campaign at the next election.
The teal independents’ major financial backer is worried that momentum to limit federal electoral spending will kneecap its campaigning abilities and entrench the major parties’ advantage at the next election.
“[There is] $750,000 each election cycle they [major parties] have to communicate to their communities, which are often just used for campaigning. We know about the pork barrelling,” he told the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday. The Australia Institute’s democracy and accountability program director, Bill Browne, pointed to between $1000 and $2500 as a decent ballpark figure for federal donation disclosures.
Donation caps in Victoria and NSW would have ramifications should Climate 200 seek to replicate its success at a state level, he said. “We could be in a world where we suggest to [donors] to make direct donations to different campaigns, that’s the sort of thing we could be doing in the future,” he said.
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