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The federal system of donations allows people and businesses to donate vast amounts of money and in a manner that delays for months, sometimes years, disclosure that they gave it. Contrary to global best practice, which requires real-time declaration of donations, Australia\u2019s system allows entities to donate and for those donations to not appear on donation registers for extended periods.The federal system is also lagging behind many state systems: in Queensland donations must be declared within seven days; in Victoria they must declared within 21 days; in NSW during election periods donations must be declared within 21 days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attention was focused on the issue in Tasmania \u2013 which follows federal donations laws \u2013 in 2019 after it took 11 months for $500,000 in donations from the gambling lobby<\/a> to the Tasmanian Liberals to be declared. <\/span><\/p>\n

Another example is when then Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pledged $1.75 million to the Liberal Party<\/a> ahead of the 2016 Federal Election. It is believed to be the largest donation in Australian political history. However, the money wasn\u2019t received until after the election and in the next financial year, giving the Liberal Party 11 months before it was required to declare the money.
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The federal system of donations allows people and businesses to donate vast amounts of money and in a manner that delays for months, sometimes years, disclosure that they gave it. Contrary to global best practice, which requires real-time declaration of donations, Australia\u2019s system allows entities to donate and for those donations to not appear on donation registers for extended periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPolitical Donations - Your Right To Know<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yourrighttoknow.com.au\/media-freedom\/political-donations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Political Donations - Your Right To Know\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The federal system of donations allows people and businesses to donate vast amounts of money and in a manner that delays for months, sometimes years, disclosure that they gave it. 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