Labor Prime Minister and Liberal Leader,
We refer to the report by Political
Reporter Daniel Wills below and that the new law being
introduced for the purpose of banning all political donations must be
nationwide. This measure would ensure that all Australian Citizens are
more unequal because they cannot be represented by small political parties of
their choice or by independent members of Parliament.
Big parties are always flushed with funds as they are always
being backed up by vested interests and they do have clandestine funds
supporting them.
It is hypocritical for the Greens who had received the
biggest single donation in political history in Australia being now
unwilling to support our demand or the demands of minor political parties or
would-be independent candidates for elections.
The two major political parties are taking measures to
ensure their continued survival for the purpose of protecting the
interests of the political elites such that the endemic corrupt acts in
providing favours to their cronies remains undetected and undisputed.
Australia has now come to a stage where the two major
political parties are only opponents in namesake only. In order to ensure
true democracy, the political system must do something to prop up aspiring
independent candidates for election so as to break the impasse created by the
major political parties who are creating a monopoly for themselves.
Under the present system Australia is not a democratic
country because there is no law to stop vested interests from making political
donations to major political parties and at the same time stifles the emergence
of minor political parties and independent political candidates.
Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
Date: 23-July-2012.
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party that calls a spade a spade.
Laws to stop political fundraisers
·
Political Reporter Daniel Wills
·
July 19, 2012 12:07PM
· MINISTERS would be
banned from being used as "bait" to win party political donations at
high-priced dinners and fundraising functions under proposed new laws being
taken to State Parliament.
Under the changes, political parties would
not be able to promote the attendance of ministers and special access to them
as a centrepiece of fundraising events like those held by SA Progressive
Business.
Progressive Business is run by former senator
Nick Bolkus as Labor's fundraising arm.
Progressive Business is inviting industry
heavyweights to a lunch next Friday at the Hilton hotel featuring Premier Jay
Weatherill as the headline act and Small Business Minister Tom Koutsantonis.
Invites have also been issued to a similar
evening drinks event on August 2 with Housing and Urban Development Minister
Pat Conlon and Transport Services Minister Chloe Fox.
A separate letter selling annual memberships
to Progressive Business offers "you and your business the opportunity to
host senior government ministers, including the Prime Minister and the Premier,
in your boardroom".
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The top-rated $10,000 membership offers
"briefings for up to three company representatives" with ministers.
Greens MP Mark Parnell says his proposed laws
would ensure the system was seen to be "squeaky clean".
"Ministers are appointed by the Governor
to work on behalf of all South Australians. They should not be used as bait for
party political fundraisers," he said.
A Government spokeswoman said the premier and
ministers were "very accessible to people engaged in all walks of life as
they seek out community views about the future of this state".
"These sorts of functions are one way of
engaging in those discussions," the spokeswoman said.
"All tenders for government contracts
are subject to a rigorous probity process.
"We will shortly have an ICAC in place
which will give the community further confidence."
The spokeswoman said the Greens had received
"the biggest single donation in political history in Australia" when
they were handed more than $1.6 million by Internet entrepreneur Graeme Wood
last year.
The Liberal Party has its own fundraising
arm, Future SA, chaired by ex-foreign minister Alexander Downer.
Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond indicated
she was unlikely to support the reform proposal.
"It is also academic to talk about
controls over political fundraising on any kind of level playing field while
trade unions have the freedom to promote any Labor Party cause they
choose," she said.
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