Ged Kearney (Cooper, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for the comments, and I hear your concerns, but Labor has a very proud history of political donation reforms. Under Bob Hawke, it was the first to introduce a donations disclosure regime in the 1980s. You may or may not be aware—maybe you are—but, in August 2022, the Special Minister of State asked the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters to inquire into and report on all aspects of the conduct of the 2022 federal election, including reforms to political donation laws, particularly the applicability of real-time disclosure and a reduction of the disclosure threshold to a fixed $1,000; potential reforms to the funding of elections, particularly regarding electoral expenditure caps in the public funding of parties and candidates; and the potential for truth-in-political-advertising laws to enhance the integrity and transparency of the electoral system. Whilst I note the member's concern around tobacco particularly, we are confident that those donations will be caught up in that.

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