KEW COTTAGES COALITION
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We do a lot with a little :-)
So please
just help us by making a small
donation today :-)
Or
make
a statement 4Kew
. You can now buy
online some of
our Kew Cottages Campaign T-shirts, Greeting cards,
photography, and artwork. Just visit the 4Kew shop
at redBubble.com and
follow the prompts :-) State Government Money Problems.
Large financial donations plus secret deals with political parties, groups, and/or key individuals have long been recognised as a major potential threat to the democratic process, not just in Victoria, not just in Australia, but internationally.
For example,
in the United States the donations problem became so bad that
Corporations are currently banned from making any donations and
individuals can only give up to $2,300 to each candidate in any
election. But despite the ban, election watchdogs say that U.S.
fundraisers are finding a way around the restrictions to collect
unprecedented sums of money (See...
"Big money's sway in US 2008 race",
BBC
,7th September 2007).
Closer to home, State
Governments in Australia and their large political donors have
come under increasing scrutiny. since the 1980's.
After the 'WA Inc"
affair in Western Australia both WA and two other States
(NSW and Qld) , went on
to establish their own Anti Corruption Commissions.
Land developers and construction companies featured prominently in the 'WA Inc" affair in Western Australia.
For example, John
Roberts, the founder of Multiplex, was one of WA Labor's
benefactors in the 1980's. He told the WA Inc Royal Commission
in June 1991 that he had donated $628,000 to the ALP between
1983 and 1989.
Dodgy donors,
unscrupulus politicians, and their minders however, often got
out a lot more than they put in to WA Inc. The Royal Commission
went on to estimate that the cost of 'WA Inc' to the people of
of Western Australia was eventually around $600 million. (More..
)
However, NSW developers continued to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the political parties outside NSW.
For example, shortly after the Baillieu Liberal/National Coalition Government was elected in Victoria in 2010, Walker Corporation, the NSW based developer of the Kew Cottages Public Land donated $100,000 to the Liberal Party of Australia.
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