Ponde,

I believe Nile is a NSW oddity, not a political party. I have no idea about this vinegar-faced person, nor who he is supported by. Get over the parochialism, and concentrate on Australia. Answer the question: which churches donate to political parties?

We may indeed not like this practice of political donations, but just because we don't like certain things doesn't allow us to forbid others from doing them.

I can't find any rationale which could morally allow you to prevent someone from giving their [after-tax] money to another person: that the second person happens to be a party-member makes no difference.

On the other hand, nothing stops us from preventing political donations from incorporated companies. Nobody is forced to incorporate their business, so if a business seeks an incorporation-service from the state, then the state may legitimately demand certain conditions in exchange and "no-political-donations" could be one of them. Unlike individuals, companies are not sentient beings and their freedom to operate is not sacrosanct.

donations should come from individuals without anonymity only, be channelled through the electoral commission & be named publicly immediately.

Well I disagree with the anonymity part:

That would publicly expose the identity and political views of individuals, which in turn could cause fights and disturb the peace in families or even be used for revenge by the winning party(s) once in power. This is why voting is anonymous.

Yuyutsu, i respectfully disagree because encouraging people to be childish about serious matters is the cause of all our problems. if someone wants anonymity then maybe they have something to hide. if someone feels strongly enough about politics to donate then be loud & proud about it.

David Leyonhjelm Is letting his prejudice against the greens show.
Donor transparency will not help to save democracy. It does not matter if you know who has bought a politician, minister or government, the corruption is still there.
It might be of interest to him and others that the Americans actually had laws in place to stop donations from 1907 called the Tillman Act.
Unfortunately for the Americans this has been dismantled over the years and now we have a situation where for instance the Koch bros have $1billion ready for the next Republican candidate they chose.
No donations at all should be the aim of all politicians with integrity and the sooner the better.