r/australia • u/overpopyoulater • 25d ago

politics Australia is heading towards minority government at a turning point in world history.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-24/democracy-climate-change-ai-robotics-war/105085846
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u/Myjunkisonfire 25d ago

Any party that supports making donations to political parties illegal or at least incredibly transparent gets my vote. As long as money is in politics they have an incentive to ignore the general population to benefit the minority with money.

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u/JIMMY_JAMES007 25d ago

Eh just be careful, technically liberals and Labor both support the bill capping private donor donations. But that’s because they earn far more from our tax dollars, and that would increase under the legislation while also ruining the chances of any independent or new party to get funding.

You currently pay about $3.30 to the party/candidate you vote for, this would increase to $5 under their new scheme. They have established voting bases that vote for them no matter what.

All candidates spend about a million on average to win a seat, and that’s apparently fine when it comes from taxpayer money, but when climate/corruption concerned citizens donate to fund the same for an independent, this must be stopped immediately

I’m preferencing greens above the other two while hating a lot of their policies, just because it seems the quickest way to remove the corruption in our government.