Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

There's a regular program of returns and audits by the Electoral Commission, and, clearly, it's the normal, business-as-usual approach to compliance arrangements, a combination of risk-managed spot audits. Obviously, if somebody is of a view that something untoward has happened, allegations are made and investigated. But the principle here is that this bill, if enacted after passage through the Senate, will ensure that there is strict separation between campaign donations for federal purposes and donations for state purposes. There can't be any overlap. If there is any overlap at all then the state provisions will be enlivened.