The Electoral (Accountability and Integrity) Amendment Bill 2024 would ban the giving and receiving of donations to parties, MPs and candidates.
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00:00I stand before you tonight to publicly release, for the first time, our draft legislation
00:06to reform the funding of elections in South Australia, specifically with regard to political
00:13donations. And when I say reform, allow me to be very clear. I am not talking about capping
00:24political donations. I am not talking about limiting the number of donations, or restricting
00:32where donations come from. Nor am I announcing a new transparency regime around electoral
00:40donations, because tonight I announce that we seek to ban all political donations full
00:48stop. And we're not banning them from some people, or some companies. We're banning them
00:56from everyone. I don't care if you're a cigarette company or a shoe store, whether you burn
01:04fossil fuels or you campaign against them, whether you're a business or you're a trade
01:10union, political donations are out under the model I release tonight.
01:18I stand before you tonight to publicly release, for the first time, our draft legislation
01:22to reform the funding of elections in South Australia, specifically with regard to political
01:26donations. And when I say reform, allow me to be very clear. I am not talking about capping
01:30political donations. I am not announcing a new transparency regime around electoral
01:34donations, whether you're a cigarette company or a shoe store, whether you're a business
01:38or a trade union, political donations are out under the model I release tonight. And