The Allan government is facing a challenge over claims that Victoria’s political donation laws are a rort giving the major parties an unfair advantage.
A group of former teal candidates is threatening to fight the Allan government in the High Court, claiming Victoria’s political donation laws are so skewed towards the big parties they violate an implied constitutional right to political communication.
Under the 2018 overhaul of Victoria’s political donation laws – touted by then-premier Daniel Andrews in late 2017 as the “strictest donation laws in the country” – political parties were allowed to nominate a single financial entity to be exempt from the state’s strict cap on political donations.
“We were restricted to funding our campaign from individual donations of $4320, while the major parties had tens of millions of dollars to play with,” she said. “The results tell the story: there were three independents in the lower house before the election, now there are none.”Eamon Gallagher
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