Overview
- Attorney-General Deb Frecklington introduced legislation allowing property developers to donate in state contests, while keeping the council-level prohibition.
- Donation caps would shift to an annual limit totaling about $48,000 over a term, and campaigns could be financed with bank loans.
- The bill would bar prisoners serving sentences of one year or more from voting, replacing the current three-year threshold.
- The reforms extend authorisation requirements on political messaging to 12 months before a state poll and remove Electoral Commission oversight of party pre-selections.
- Labor and the Greens condemned the package as expanding wealthy donors' influence, and the bill has been referred to a parliamentary committee with debate expected next year.