Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm says the Greens are hypocrites for accepting money from taxpayers and million dollar donations from private donors while calling for an end to big money politics.
“The Greens pocketed more than $6.3 million from taxpayers at the last election. They also once received the biggest single private political donation in history. If Richard Di Natale wants to take the high ground on political donations, he can start by refunding taxpayers and sending a cheque $6.3 million back to consolidated revenue.”
Senator Leyonhjelm said that the Greens’ game of banning donations from everyone whose activities they dislike while maintaining donations from people they like is just another kind of shady politics.
“If politicians are as easily influenced by donations as Senator Di Natale believes, his members should be worried about donations made to the Greens by the CFMEU, whose members work in a range of fields the Greens are supposed to be against, including forestry.”
Senator Leyonhjelm said the key to an honest political donation system was not picking politically correct donors, but transparency and disclosure.
“Anyone should be able to donate to any political party of their choice, but voters should be able to find out who donated very soon after the donation is made. And if you don’t like what politicians have been doing, you can kick them out.”
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