Labor responded to the independents’ claims by accusing integrity-focused teal MPs of hypocrisy and reliance on wealthy backers.
Mining magnate Clive Palmer has vowed to challenge Labor’s sweeping electoral finance reforms in the High Court, joining teal independents to slam the proposals as a scheme to lock minor parties out of politics.to each candidate of $20,000 and campaign expenditure of $800,000 on Friday after months of talks with the Coalition resulted in an in-principle agreement that could get the laws through parliament this month.
“This new legislation is designed to rig elections. It will also hinder the independents, the regular Australians, from standing for parliament, which is what the Constitution was designed for.” Farrell said he was firm in his view that keeping United States-style mega-spending out of politics was a good thing for Australian democracy and argued the bill’s provisions had been flagged for months.
Farrell said he was confident the opposition would agree to the proposal. Senior opposition sources, unable to publicly share confidential deliberations, said on Thursday that a deal was not done and remained subject to the will of the Coalition party room.
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