Allegra Spender (Wentworth, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I have a question to the minister. I appreciate where the government is going in terms of political donations, and I support increased transparency and accountability. However, the nature of e-cigarettes in particular means that it goes beyond the transparency and accountability of donations and goes to the heart of whether we should be accepting donations from the providers of e-cigarettes. I'm not aware currently that the Labor Party has made any commitments to this, or the JSCEM review either. I support the amendments moved by the member for Warringah, because I think they would ensure that in this case we don't allow e-cigarettes, which I think we collectively say we really need to stamp out and are a burden on our young people in particular. I don't support that these companies should be able to make political donations, because I think that could compromise our ability to regulate them in the future.

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