Proposed spending and donations caps may at last bring genuine reform to national election rules
- Written by Graeme Orr, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland

Money in electoral politics is like salt in the human body. Essential for activity – but too much imperils the heart.
Australia’s laws for the financing of national elections are the least developed of any comparable country. The present model marks its 40th birthday this year. In that time, other nations, and most...