And the premise of this article looks quite flawed: Anyone person or organisation can participate in the electoral process by leaflets or letterboxing or adverts or whatever. As long as it’s duly authorised.

Since when did this amount to: “This would mean that NGOs spending $1000 expressing views on political parties, candidates or election issues would have to report this”.

If you are saying third party endorsements are being caught, like the so called Swift Boat Veterans, then maybe that’s a good thing?

This was the point where a lot of organisations should probably have decided to ditch their tax-deductibility status because our environment and wildlife protection are so threatened by government-supported corporate development that environmental activism generally requires opposition to most government programs.

Do we really need tax-deductibility? Don’t we just wind up supporting self-perpetuating parasitic teams of staff who suppress anything which might contrary the government and commercial sponsors. See “Tax-deductibility, Environmental Groups & NGOs”

Let’s face it, publicly questioning Australian and State governments’ spin is increasingly becoming a revolutionary act - and the mainstream media don’t help either - not even the ABC.

This article: “Where do you go when Government and the Media don’t care” has more to say on the subject and suggests how the mainstream press manipulate opinion in much the same way as the government does, and that the solution is to use the non-mainstream press and treat the mainstream press and the government as irrelevancies.