Charlie Caruso (@CharliCaruso) interviews Kate Griffiths (@_kgriffiths) on political donations in Australia for the latest edition of the NoFibs podcast.
Kate Griffiths is a researcher at the Grattan Institute, who, along with some of her colleagues, published several articles on The Conversation about political donation reform.
Who’s in the room? Access and influence in Australian politics is the report by Danielle Wood and Kate Griffiths that uncovered how businesses with the most at stake in government decisions lobby harder and get more access to senior ministers.
The big loophole in the federal system at the moment is that the donation doesn’t need to be disclosed unless it exceeds the threshold of $13,800 dollars, but multiple donations under that threshold don’t have to be declared by the party, so the party could receive multiple donations of $10,000 from the same donor, and that doesn’t need to be declared because they’re not required to aggregate donations.
Kate Griffiths
How are political parties using loopholes to hide political donations? How are political donations influencing policy outcomes in Australia? Would 100 per cent publicly-funded political campaigns even be viable? Charlie Caruso and Kate Griffiths explore some inconvenient truths about political donations in Australia.
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