Dutton holds his seat of Dickson by a thin 1.7 per cent margin from Labor, which could get a leg-up from teal candidate preferences.
Donors who back the teals and consider themselves progressives don’t realise “they are participants in the problem”, senior Albanese minister Don Farrell has warned as he flags a suite of reforms to election donations that could curb the way independents fundraise.
Farrell said his planned changes to the nation’s election system, which he pledged to reveal within weeks, were being pilloried byThe teals will target more Liberal electorates at the next election, including Dutton’s Queensland seat of Dickson, where independent MP Zali Steggall has launched a campaign to find a progressive candidate.
But Farrell emphasised the centrality of the Westminster, two-party system and directed his most direct riposte to the teal argument against election spending limits and donation caps.Climate 200 executive director Byron Fay warned Labor’s proposed changes could hurt democracy by embedding the two-party system.
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