{"id":30203,"date":"2024-11-21T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=30203"},"modified":"2024-11-21T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:01:16","slug":"major-party-stitch-up-leaves-electoral-reform-bills-unchecked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/11\/21\/major-party-stitch-up-leaves-electoral-reform-bills-unchecked\/","title":{"rendered":"Major party stitch up leaves electoral reform bills unchecked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Responding to the Government and Opposition blocking the Greens move to refer the electoral reform bills to a Senate inquiry&nbsp;<strong>Greens Senate leader and democracy spokesperson Senator Larissa Waters said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday in the Senate the government and the opposition teamed up to block an inquiry into the electoral reform bills. This is bad for democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are some straightforward transparency measures in this bill, like lowering the disclosure threshold to $1,000 and real-time disclosure, which we have long called for.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens are ready to pass transparency measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHowever, we want an inquiry to ensure that the proposed funding reforms to get big money out of politics don\u2019t entrench the two party system and make it harder for diversity and new entrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is the job of the Senate to scrutinise proposed legislation and that is what we have called for today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAny reform which limits donations to anyone who challenges Liberal and Labor, while protecting the establishment parties&#8217; sources of income, will be seen for what it is &#8211; a complete stitch up, undermining our democracy, and the public\u2019s expectation of fair play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBoth the big parties continue to accept huge sums of money from dirty industries like coal and gas with a track record of trying to buy favourable policy outcomes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens have been calling for reform for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens are ready, with a bill, that provides real electoral reform, but we\u2019re very suspicious that the two big parties will gang up to rig the system to benefit themselves and lock out smaller parties and new entrants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the Government and Opposition blocking the Greens move to refer the electoral reform bills to a Senate inquiry&nbsp;Greens Senate leader and democracy spokesperson Senator Larissa Waters said: \u201cToday in the Senate the government and the opposition teamed up to block an inquiry into the electoral reform bills. This is bad for democracy. \u201cThere &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/11\/21\/major-party-stitch-up-leaves-electoral-reform-bills-unchecked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Major party stitch up leaves electoral reform bills unchecked&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30204,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203\/revisions\/30204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}