This video gives an overview of the Australian Commonwealth Government's proposed campaign finance reforms in the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024 (Cth). These reforms include better donation disclosure provisions, caps on political donations, caps on electoral expenditure and public funding to political parties.
The video then addresses particular issues concerning the capping of political donations, noting that the caps are so high that they could not possibly be for the proclaimed purpose of preventing the risk or perception of undue influence or corruption arising from the making of donations. This opens up the way for a potential constitutional challenge if there is no 'legitimate purpose' for the cap provisions, or if they are not 'reasonably appropriate and adapted' to advance a legitimate purpose.
Other aspects of the Bill will hopefully be considered in subsequent videos.
The bill can be found here for those who wish to examine it themselves: [ Ссылка ].
