Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

[by video link] We just have a fundamentally different view about where the line should be drawn. Yes, we do think that the federal law desperately needs reform, and, yes, we do think that donations, federally, should be restricted and should be properly disclosed. So I suspect we're not going to have a meeting of the minds on that issue. But, nonetheless, we will persist with moving our amendments to strengthen federal law, because it sounds to me like the back door is still there, and, if you've got that relationship between big donors and a state branch of a political party, it's pretty artificial to say that the mere existence of a separate bank account would somehow quarantine the influence that that donor would have on that branch of the political party. So that legalised corruption still remains. Even though it may be in a separate bank account, that influence is still being peddled, and that is exactly why we are seeking to ban donations from listed sectors and to cap donations from everybody else.