The Victorian Greens are calling on the Allan Labor Government to immediately introduce laws to cap political donations ahead of Victoria\u2019s state election in November as the High Court has ruled that Labor\u2019s existing donation laws are unconstitutional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Victorian Greens say that Labor has botched these donation laws from the start by including a sneaky loophole that allows Labor and Liberals to collect millions of extra dollars through their \u2018nominated entity\u2019 slush funds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This dodgy loophole has caused the High Court to throw out Victoria\u2019s donation laws entirely, meaning Victoria now has no cap on donations from corporations and billionaires to elections, putting our democracy at risk and allowing big money from the likes of Gina Rhinehart, the gambling and fossil fuel industry to flow to Labor, Liberals and One Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say that immediate action must be taken, otherwise Labor is allowing big corporations and billionaire donations to influence the state\u2019s election later this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn Labor\u2019s desperate attempt to cling onto their political slush funds, Labor have completely botched these donation laws. As a result, the Victorian state election this November could be influenced by multi-million dollar donations from big corporations, Gina Rinehart and other billionaires who want to buy our democracy for their own gain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf Labor doesn\u2019t take immediate action to cap donations to political parties, they\u2019re giving big corporate interests and billionaires free reign to influence this year\u2019s state election. We cannot afford to have a system like the United States where billionaires and big corporations can buy politicians and elections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Greens are calling on the Allan Labor Government to immediately introduce laws to cap political donations ahead of Victoria\u2019s state election in November as the High Court has ruled that Labor\u2019s existing donation laws are unconstitutional. The Victorian Greens say that Labor has botched these donation laws from the start by including a … Continue reading “Greens call for immediate new laws to keep billionaire donations out of state elections as Labor\u2019s botched electoral laws are found unconstitutional”<\/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-38457","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\/38457","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=38457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38458,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38457\/revisions\/38458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}