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Biggest rort of all slips under the radar : Comments

By Scott Prasser, published 6/8/2007

Public funding of election campaigns is outrageous: it has undermined key aspects of our democracy and made our parties lazy.

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While public funding of election campaigns may have been introduced at a time of diminishing lay party membership, my 20 years as a member of the Liberal Party (including 8 years as a state MP) have convinced me that public funding has significantly hastened that trend. With campaign money coming from the public purse, most MPs now see little need for lay party members other than to vote for them at preselection, but even here only a dozen or so loyal lay party members in each branch will be sufficient. However, when a party's major source of funds was from functions organised by branches, the number of members was critical for obvious reasons: annual membership fees, attendance at functions, bringing non-member friends along to functions, etc.
Posted by Bernie Masters, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 11:23:19 PM
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