Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Waters for her second supplementary question. Again I reject the underlying implication in your question. The objective of this government is to bring about transparency in the Australian electoral process. One of the ways the committee has recommended we do that is by bringing down the $16,000 ceiling for disclosure of electoral donations to $1,000. That will very significantly add to transparency in electoral processes. One of the other proposals, Senator Waters, is to have real-time donations so that any voter can know within, say, seven days who has donated to the political candidate they are considering supporting. (Time expired)