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A good political donation disclosure system would close the loopholes that allow major donors to hide, while protecting the privacy of small donors.
After the war, Bean spent two decades working on the official war history, writing six of the dozen volumes and supervising the overall project.
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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.
AEC disclosures revealed Malcolm Turnbull to be the single biggest donor to a political party in 2016-17.
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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.
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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.