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News Encyclopedia: Australia trails behind in regulating political donations

Ban from foreign interests to political parties

Foreign political donations will be banned and those trying to influence Australian politics on behalf of other nations will be forced to declare who they are working for, under new laws. But as Winmas Yu explains in this episode of News Encyclopedia, our political finance regulation now falls way behind international standards.


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Foreign political donations will be banned and those trying to influence Australian politics on behalf of other nations will be forced to declare who they are working for, under new laws. But as Winmas Yu explains in this episode of News Encyclopedia, our political finance regulation now falls way behind international standards.



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