Cross-party recommends ban on foreign donations to political parties

The Coalition, Labor and the Greens have agreed that foreign donations to political parties should be banned. Image: Federal Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds AAP

In a landmark report released Friday, 10 March, a cross-party committee recommended harsh penalties for any party, or affiliated group like a trade union, caught accepting donations from overseas.

 

But that is where the bipartisanship ends.

 

The Coalition wants to go further and apply the ban to to so-called 'third parties', like the left-wing lobby group GetUp.

 

And that provision threatens the support of Labor and the Greens.