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Australian political donations

Latest news and views about Australian political donations from the Guardian

November 2024

  • File photo of the House of Representatives in Canberra

    Greens and some independents are biggest winners from Labor’s proposed donation cap, data shows

  • Parliament House in Canberra

    Sneaky, excessive and unjustified: why Labor’s electoral reforms are vulnerable to constitutional challenge

    Anne Twomey
  • Prime minister Anthony Albanese walks past opposition leader Peter Dutton during question time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra

    Full Story
    Big spending: the politics of Australian electoral reform – Full Story podcast

  • Anthony Albanese looking at Peter Dutton across the desk in the lower house of parliament

    Labor set to work with Coalition on passing electoral reform bill that critics say has ‘major loopholes’

  • Labor and Liberals will get double their public funding if ‘biased’ electoral rules are passed, Climate 200 says

  • Labor and Liberals could each get $19m more from the public under electoral law reform. What else would it do?

  • Labor and Coalition accused of cooking up ‘secret deal’ on electoral rules as Clive Palmer signals court challenge

  • Rather than banning big money, Labor’s electoral changes will guarantee cash keeps flowing to the big parties

    Kate Chaney
  • Clive Palmer-scale political donations to be blocked under new electoral spending caps

June 2024

  • Independent MPs Monique Ryan, Zoe Daniel, Sophie Scamps, Zali Steggall and Kylea Tink

    ‘More secretive than the Morrison government’: Labor accused of transparency failure

  • Teal supporters in Melbourne in 2022

    Climate 200 names nine new Coalition seats where it hopes to replicate teal wave at next election

May 2024

  • Fatima Payman and Penny Wong

    Australia news live
    Senator breaks ranks on Gaza – as it happened

  • Parliament House

    Federal Liberals charging up to $2,000 for budget fundraisers within Parliament House

April 2024

  • Kate Chaney

    Crossbench demands donations reform after $16m in ‘dark money’ flows into voice campaign

    Transparency advocates say source of 20% of funds during referendum campaign won’t be disclosed due to Australia’s political donations laws

March 2024

  • Peter Lewis

    The Guardian Essential report
    Disinformation continues to infect Australia’s body politic. It’s time to anchor our discourse in shared reality

    Peter Lewis
  • Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are neck and neck in the popularity stakes but the Coalition appears to have retained an edge in two-party-preferred terms.

    The Guardian Essential report
    Guardian Essential poll: only 29% of voters support more public funding of election candidates

  • Independent member for Curtin Kate Chaney

    Full Story
    Newsroom edition: the struggle to get big money out of politics – Full Story podcast

  • Don Farrell standing in the senate

    Labor’s Don Farrell accuses teal independents of hypocrisy over political donations

  • From travel expenses to dark money, lifting the veil on political donations is essential for a healthy democracy

    Clancy Moore
  • The real barbecue stopper: how much democracy is in a democracy sausage?

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