Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Licence needed for work use Learn More

Gordon Campbell | Parliament TV | Parliament Today | News Video | Crime | Employers | Housing | Immigration | Legal | Local Govt. | Maori | Welfare | Unions | Youth | Search

 

Govt's Arguments for Anonymous Donation Ban

COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT
Media Release: For Immediate Release


12 August 2007

Coalition Releases Government's Arguments for Anonymous Donation Ban

The Open Government Report released today contains details of the original decisions make by Cabinet several months ago on election finance reform. The Cabinet agreed that a lack of controls on anonymous donations and secret trusts would "weaken the integrity of the electoral process". This contrasts with the Government's later decision to remove all provisions on anonymous party donations from the Electoral Finance Bill that was introduced to parliament late last month.

COG had requested a copy of the Cabinet paper under the Official information Act but was refused. It has obtained a copy anyway and released quotes from the paper in the Open Government Report.

A copy of the Open Government Report is attached (article page three).

ENDS

Advertisement - scroll to continue reading

© Scoop Media

Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
 
 
 
Parliament Headlines | Politics Headlines | Regional Headlines

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

LATEST HEADLINES

  • PARLIAMENT
  • POLITICS
  • REGIONAL
 
 

Featured News Channels


 
 
 
 

Join Our Free Newsletter

Subscribe to Scoop’s 'The Catch Up' our free weekly newsletter sent to your inbox every Monday with stories from across our network.