Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Consistent with the JSCEM's recommendations, the bill proposes changes to remove ambiguity around the accountabilities, affiliations and alliances of political parties by removing the capacity for an individual to be a registered officer or deputy registered officer of multiple political parties. This does not prevent a person from being the registered officer of the same federal political party and the registered officer of a state branch or division of that party, and indeed the relevant provision that ensures that is the case—and that is certainly the intention—is on page 16 of the bill, clause 52(2C)(b).