Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

It has been thought out so as to be able to smoothly say to people: ‘Give us $10,000. Write the cheque now and nobody will know about it ever.’ It used to be much more awkward. It used to be, ‘Give us any figure short of $1,500 but don’t make it $1,500 or you will be on the record.’ They have overcome that through this wording which says, ‘Give us $10,000 and you are right.’