Christian Porter during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House on June 21, 2021.Two federal politicians have come under the spotlight for receiving money from anonymous donors to fund their legal bills.
It has pointed to the example of Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s crowdfunding campaign in her defamation case against former senator David Leyonhjelm, which she subsequently won. But experts have told SBS News that the two cases are different. But Senator Hanson-Young says she received 1,800 donations in her crowdfunding campaign, and most of them were under $20.
Swinburne University governance and parliamentary studies expert Professor Ken Coghill, a former Labor MP, said factoring in the size of donations is important. “But using a trust, and specifically either inviting or receiving donations on the understanding that even large, large, large donors, the identities can't be revealed, is a real problem for any politician.”Professor Brown said the bigger issue is that there’s currently no guarantee that any independent mechanism or committee will look into such issues, and formulate guidelines and rules for parliamentarians.
“We don't know who might be coming along down the track in order to say to a particular parliamentarian, ‘Well I didn't tell you at the time but I would like a favour in return for all of that money that I gave you for your legal costs or for your by your house or whatever it is’”.Professor Coghill says it all goes back to the need for an effective and strong federal integrity commission.
Let the ALP shout out his dubious activities from the hill tops come the federal election.
Total bs
Porter is compromised until the source of that money is disclosed
Who cares
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