I'd be very curious to see how orgs like the Taxpayer's Union or Hobson's Pledge fit in. They are campaigning for our political parties but are not those parties, most of their work is not in actual campaigning but in sewing seeds of doubt or pushing certain views among the public.

I guess what the Greens are proposing is a lot better than the current state, especially the standdown between being an MP/minister and being allowed to join a lobby group.

This hits squarely in my ‘pro-democracy’ sweet spot. Good stuff.

Political dontations are the worst. Even worse than donations imo.

Nice to see another party on board with Opportunity's cleand up politics policy.

Billionaires: roight. Ill just make a thousand donations from each of my shell companies, then.

Seriously: its a start, but how does this stop the mega donors from doing just that?

https://thekaka.substack.com/p/election-hoon-how-should-the-supermarkets

This is a good look at the supermarket issue; also has the Labour spokesperson talking.

What if we spread corporate donations across all parties instead.

Ensure the target party gets the largest share of the donation (not necessarily 50%), but all the other parties get a slice of the pie based on their current number of seats.

If you don’t have any seats, you get to keep it all (because you’re either a fringe weirdo, or new and need a leg up).

I should probably read the bills as I can't see how this enforces anything.

it still feels like it assumes Pele are fleeing the rules and passing nicely, which we've seen considerably eroded as the current coalition emulate USistan politics

This would be a great but I can't see a majority getting on board

I'm against capping political donations or getting money out of politics. I think our campaign finance laws are good and could be expanded to account for the need.

If you have money you can push an issue. It can be done via political investment or it can be done outside thr political system by ads which push an issue the part support. Having an incentive for money to be invested in the campaigns which is open and regulated is far better than forcing all that money out into the zero regulation grey zone.