South Australia’s election laws will give major parties and One Nation millions of taxpayer dollars – if they are even constitutional
The South Australian election earlier this year was the first test of the dramatic changes that the Malinauskas Labor Government made to democracy in the state. Under Labor’s electoral changes, to compensate for the ban on most private political donations, established political parties and sitting MPs receive generous taxpayer funding from South Australians (freeing those private donations to go to federal campaigns instead).
