Mining billionaire warns government against pursuing laws that would prevent him from continuing to spend millions in support of his electoral ambitions

"Billionaire businessman, Clive Palmer, has warned Labor against legislating electoral spending and donation caps, accusing it of attempting to “silence the diversity of ideas in this country”.

The Albanese government is preparing legislation to cap political donations and electoral spending, citing the influence of Palmer’s hundreds of millions of electoral spending, backed by donations from his company Mineralogy to the United Australia Party.

Although the reforms are backed by an inquiry into the 2022 election by the joint standing committee on electoral matters (Jscem), Palmer’s intervention into the debate spells trouble for the government, which could face a high court challenge on the basis caps infringe the implied freedom of political communication."

  • synae[he/him]English
    29•9 months ago

    As an American, do NOT let them claim that money is “speech”!

    • It's A Faaaahhkeah!English
      15•9 months ago

      Hahaha no one listens to this Jabba the Hutt looking walking heart attack anyway. This useless fuck puts himself in the news with outlandish shit all the time and the press run with it just to fill a quota.

      This is a dude who wanted to rebuild the Titanic which went nowhere, he wanted to make Jurassic park with “State of the art animatronics” from china, which china sent him the old crappy ones, he’s a joke here and not one person with a sense of intelligence actually listens to him.

    • @Cort
      9•9 months ago

      Allowing it means anyone with money is allowed to drown out the diversity of ideas with sheer volume of money.