Senate debates Bills

Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Bill 2017; In Committee


Mathias Cormann

Mathias Cormann WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council

5:03 pm

You're not allowed to run for president, that's right. That counts the two of us out, Senator Farrell. But Australia is one of the few Western democracies in which foreign donors can still influence domestic elections. Senator Hanson would remember that the government announced some time ago now, I think this time last year, a package of reforms, of which this is a component, to protect Australia from undue foreign interference in our internal democratic processes.

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