The Australian Greens have reintroduced a Bill to ban political donations from dirty industries driving the cost-of-living and climate crises, including fossil fuel companies, gambling giants and the big banks, as new AEC data this week shows the major parties are still bankrolling their campaigns with millions in corporate handouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens Democracy Spokesperson, Senator Steph Hodgins-May:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAEC data confirms that the major parties are still hooked on dirty donations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile everyday Australians struggle with soaring cost of living and housing crises, big corporations are pouring millions into Labor and Liberal coffers to protect their profits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNearly $4 million from coal and gas has flowed to the major parties in just one year. You cannot fight the climate crisis while being funded by those who profit from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen the gambling industry and the big banks write massive cheques, they\u2019re not doing it for nothing \u2014 they\u2019re pulling the strings from behind the scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis Bill would finally clean up politics by putting a stop to dirty donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt will cap donations at $3,000 per term, finishing the job abandoned when Labor and the Liberals cut a backroom deal to gut last year\u2019s electoral reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Greens have reintroduced a Bill to ban political donations from dirty industries driving the cost-of-living and climate crises, including fossil fuel companies, gambling giants and the big banks, as new AEC data this week shows the major parties are still bankrolling their campaigns with millions in corporate handouts. Greens Democracy Spokesperson, Senator Steph … Continue reading “Greens legislation would ban dirty donations as AEC data reveals major parties still pocketing millions in corporate handouts”<\/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-37237","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\/37237","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=37237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37238,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37237\/revisions\/37238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}