Labor, Coalition unite to reject legislative changes which would make politcal donations more transparent

Voters will be left in the dark about who donated to the major political parties ahead of the next federal election, after Labor and the Coalition united to reject legislative changes being pushed by the crossbench.

New laws banning foreign donations to political parties have passed the Senate, but the minor parties were angling for further reform, calling for real-time donation disclosure and stricter caps on anonymous donations.

The changes that passed will see foreign donations to political parties of more than $100 banned.

However, the Greens failed to amend the legislation to have political donations disclosed as they occurred.

Under current federal laws, voters have to wait months to find out who donated more than $13,000 to the parties, but if the amendments had passed, the public would have gone into the next federal election with more information about political party funding than ever before.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-15/labor-and-coalition-reject-changes-to-pol...

It is understandable that the coalition would resist changes to political donations but fancy the pure and exalted ALP resisting changes which would introduce honesty into our system of government. The ALP is the world's largest collection of filth and depravity.

"Under current federal laws, voters have to wait months to find out who donated more than $13,000 to the parties ..."

We still get to know, though.