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Tasmanian government releases report into state’s political donation laws
The Tasmanian Government has moved towards toughening the state’s electoral laws, three years after an election that allowed the origins of millions of dollars in political donations to remain secret.
Key points:
- The Tasmanian Government has released its report into reviewing the state’s political donation laws
- A total of 11 recommendations have been made, all of which the government supports “in-principle”
- One of the proposed changes would see the current donation disclosure threshold reduced from $14,300 to between $1,000 and $5,000
Tasmania has the weakest political donation laws in the country, with only donations above $14,300 required to be declared.
Analysis by Tasmania’s Institute for Social Change in 2019 found just 20 per cent of…
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