In Queensland, the ALP have passed legislation giving all unions a combined $1.7 million spending budget per seat while limiting the spending power of parties, candidates, and other groups with no union connections, to $149,000. Under the proposed new Western Australia election rules an independent or party candidate could not spend over $125,000 and each union or third party would have a two million state-wide spending limit.
Mr Murray said there were at least 25 active unions in Western Australia which meant a combined union spending across the state would amount to $56 million while political party spending of the amounted to approximately $8.1 million. He said the problem was under the new legislation unions are treated as completely independent despite the fact they are major supporters of the ALP.
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Barney’s legacy still hangers heavy in the air in the west and to make it worse the stooges who sat on their hands and did nothing are still there. There needs to be a clean out of the liberal party from the top
Trump is worried he's going to lose the coming election. He knows first hand how to rig an election, and he is now saying the Democrats are going to rig this one. Murray, who hit Trump with hard hitting questions 😂being the sycophant he is, just wants to mirror his man crush.
Calm down, mate. Have another pie ... !
Yawn.
😂😂😂 Mark McGowan doesn’t need to rig anything. The incompetence that is WA liberals couldnt win a raffle if they bought all the tickets.
Sky News is shit. Thje US business model of profiting from cultural division is not something Australia needs to follow. Lets support each other in these hard times and not shit on WA, or Labor, or Victoria
Let’s see if they do it in the same sneaky way the Qld govt did! ALP corrupting our institutions.
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