Andrew Murray (WA, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

I move Democrat amendment (12) on sheet 4879:

(12)  Schedule 2, page 43 (after line 6), after item 27, insert:

27A Subsection 314AG(3)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

        (3)    In addition to the requirements of this section, the regulations must require categories within a return which separately identify and classify:

             (a)    total amounts received; and

             (b)    individual gifts received which exceed the threshold amount; and

             (c)    a total aggregate figure of gifts received which are below the threshold amount; and

             (d)    total public funding received.

This amendment seeks to improve the disclosure which is already provided for in the regulations. I should indicate that we regard this as an important integrity and clarity amendment because it allows for the existing return, which is provided for in existing law, to be better expressed in regulations and to be more clear in the understanding of the returns as presented. This is a fairly minor change, but we think it is a very useful and a fairly important advance on the way in which returns are presented. I hope the government will consider this favourably.

Question negatived.

Mr Temporary Chairman, my apologies. I did not hear all the voices. Did Labor say no on that one?