Mining magnate Clive Palmer has a fortnight to find a sitting federal MP or 500 members for his new party, or it will hit an iceberg before this year’s federal election.
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One Nation claims against ‘vengeful and political’ Abbott acts
Fifteen years after it began, Tony Abbott’s secret pact to destroy One Nation will be examined in open court. Crikey has obtained the statement of claim by One Nation co-founder David Ettridge.
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Pauline Hanson eyes an election comeback: can she do it?
Pauline Hanson says she’ll run at this year’s federal election. Does she stand a chance — and can she make a buck out of taxpayer-funded public electoral funding? Crikey intern Carrington Clarke investigates.
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Another year, another round of media failures on campaign finance
The release of donations data should be one of the year’s biggest dumps of hot political news. It’s high time the mainstream media stopped turning a blind eye and started asking questions.
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Miners, developers pile in to fund Newman’s LNP campaign
Big political donors ditched Anna Bligh’s failing government and put their money behind Campbell Newman’s bid for the Queensland premiership, data from the AEC reveals.
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AEC donor dump: who paid out for the parties in 11-12
It’s poor, inconsistent and late — but we finally have a glimpse of who donated to political parties in 2011-12. So who did the shooters donate to?
READ MOREElectoral Commission on a roll as hunt on for the unenrolled
The Australian Electoral Commission today launches “Count Me In.” As it describes it: “a nationwide hunt for voters missing from the electoral roll.”
READ MOREQld Labor ends electoral arms-race — just when the LNP benefits
Queensland Labor enters the 2012 election without one of its key campaigning tools of recent years. The party’s success has been built on massively outspending its opponents. New laws bring that to an end just when the tables were turned.
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Check your maths, and your letterbox
You can learn a lot from digging through 12 years worth of Australian Electoral Commission filings …
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The rise and rise of mining company donations
Big mining money has shifted behind the Coalition and poses a serious threat to Labor if maintained.
READ MOREThe new electoral law that will deliver tens of millions to parties
A new bill will see tens of millions of dollars channelled to political parties in the name of democracy.
READ MOREMore evidence of why donation disclosure laws are hopeless
For several years now Crikey has engaged in the ritual denunciation of our Commonwealth electoral donation laws. It’s worth repeating.
READ MOREElectoral funding figures show Labor’s donations collapse
Labor’s donations advantage vanished at the 2010 election, new data from the Australian Electoral Commission shows.
READ MOREA hundred years later, it’s time for another vital voting reform
Out of the clash of interests in federal parliament in 1911 came an enduring electoral reform, writes Brian Costar. An update is long overdue.
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The man behind Katter’s AEC party name rejection
The man responsible for ending the possibility of Bob Katter abbreviating his Katter’s Australian Party name to “Australian Party” is David Doe, a man who has been highly active in the video games censorship debate, writes Angela Priestley.
READ MOREThe Hanson prank is funny to a point
The Pauline Hanson plot thickens.
READ MOREThe political donations data is nowhere near the full picture
The material released this week by the Electoral Commission only gives a partial picture of who is funding our political parties.
READ MOREMiners big on donations, but not on disclosure
Several companies and individuals have been identified in Liberal and Labor documents as making donations, but were not recorded on the AEC website as having made any returns, as they’re required to do.
READ MOREPolitical donations give and take
The Australian Electoral Commission released political donations data today for 2009-10, giving us an insight into what political parties received from donors between 7 and 19 months ago.
READ MOREMayne on donations: Vic Libs still richest political division in the country
The Victorian Liberals clearly remain the richest political division in the country. No one else can claim to own $50 million worth of shares.
READ MOREFuture of the National Tally Room again in doubt
While its seven metre-high board of polling figures and swarm of electoral officials may have come to symbolise Australian suffrage, the future of the National Tally Room as the centre of election night may again be in doubt after ABC election numbers guru Antony Green ran into technology issues on Saturday night which meant he could not receive data or offer predictions.
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Fiddling with the electoral system
I just love the way that the so-called political numbers experts invariably get things wrong when they start fiddling with the electoral system.
READ MOREGreater compulsion isn’t the answer to voter disengagement
There are calls for automatic voter enrolment to address the alarming decline in voter participation in the 2010 election. But that doesn’t address the real problem of disengagement.
READ MOREThe Latham/Henderson double act
This week’s Wankley goes to a dual bout of disingenuousness between the upstanding director of the Sydney Institute, Gerard Henderson and fellow Fairfax columnist and former Liverpool Mayor Mark Latham.
READ MOREGreen: Don’t believe the Tally Room
The 2PP figure currently on display on the Australian Electoral Commission’s Virtual Tally Room is wrong. Antony Green explains why it’s wrong and why it’s there anyway.
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