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Don't ban donations, ban donations from crooks

By Graham Young - posted Thursday, 24 May 2018


In other words, they believe it has a corrupting influence.

So what did voters think about “…any corporate entities, such as companies and unions, who commit significant illegal acts”? Eighty-eight per cent agreed they should be banned from donating, and only four per cent disagreed.

It doesn’t get more definitive than that.

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So what we have in Queensland is an anti-democratic fix, based on only allowing those people the ruling party likes, to participate fully in the exercise of free speech.

Ironically, while the moves are justified on the basis of restoring faith in the system, it will increase public cynicism and have the reverse effect.

Both the Queensland government and the CCC have damaged their legitimacy. We wait to see what group will be the next to be nobbled.

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This article was first published by The Spectator.



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