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Political Roundup: What's driving the urgent clamp down on foreign donations?

Bryce Edwards
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Political Roundup: What's driving the urgent clamp down on foreign donations?
Justice Minister Andrew Little announced he would pass a reform of party donations laws, under urgency. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Bryce Edwards
Opinion by Bryce Edwards
Bryce Edwards is a lecturer in Politics at Victoria University
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What is it about reforming laws around money and politics that makes politicians so inclined to stuff it up and act undemocratically? From Helen Clark's notorious Electoral Finance Act (2007) – which the party eventually voted to repeal, given it was so anti-democratic and unworkable – through to yesterday's

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