Rudd Backs Down
Given our Lobbyocracy campaign, I guess I can’t go without commenting on Rudd’s back-down. Problem is, what’s to say?
The proposed changes were pissweek and would have had little to know impact on donations to political parties, but now any additional levels of transparency will also go by the wayside.
I know the Centre put a lot of work into a submission to the Green Paper on electoral reform and I was sure Falkner was genuinely committed to reform. Whether or not Ludwig taking over from Falkner when Falkner moved to Defence had any impact is impossible to say.
It’s also not surprising that it would appear that it is Victorian Labor that has kicked up a fuss give Victoria has the worst record in the country when it comes to this sort of thing.
*sigh*
