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

Thank you, Senator Waters, for your first supplementary question. Senator, I reject the premise of your question. The High Court routinely makes it very clear that organisations in this country are entitled to make donations to political parties.

My objective, in all of the discussions that I'm involved in at the moment, is to try and put downward pressure on the amount of money that's being spent by rich actors in the political process. I think we have one opportunity to do this. The idea that, at the last federal election, somebody like Clive Palmer could spend $117 million— (Time expired)