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Australia’s compulsory voting laws undermine the arguments for requiring voters to produce identification.
It is likely in future we will see more, not less, unsolicited text messaging — and not just in politics.
A good political donation disclosure system would close the loopholes that allow major donors to hide, while protecting the privacy of small donors.
As for his racism and anti-Semitism, Bean’s attitudes on race changed in later years. He conceded he’d been wrong about Monash. In the 1940s he supported the idea of a Jewish refuge in Australia.
The annual February festival of lampooning the largest visible donor lulls Australians into a false sense of security that there is a functioning political donations disclosure regime in place.
Check out our interactives showing the total donations to Australia’s major parties in 2015-16, who the biggest donors to the parties were, and how donations to parties have changed in recent years.
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