A new bill introduced by the teals calls for donation reforms that will help ensure government contracts are not awarded 'due to political donations and favours that are owed'.
Kate Chaney introduced the Restoring Trust Bill on Monday morning with 13 proposed changes to make the political donation process more “transparent”.
Ms Chaney told NewsDay that the reforms would help inform voters when they hit the polls, as she bid to lower the public disclosure threshold from $16,300 to $1,000. “Australians want to have faith in their politicians and there are a lot of things about the way our elections are run that undermines that,” she told Sky News Australia on Monday afternoon.
“Secondly, reducing financial influence. So people have faith that decisions are being made in everyone's interest… [and] levelling the playing field so that there can be competition for political ideas and candidates.”
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