Currently in Australia a party can receive unlimited donations and does not even have to declare a donation if it is less than $11,900 at a time. Every year millions of dollars are spent by corporations in Australia in an attempt to secure political loyalty and/or favours.

Our question is if it is illegal to bribe a policeman(or woman) why is it acceptable in the case of someone with even more power and an elected representative responsibility? This petition is to make it illegal for donations to be made other than by an individual or on behalf of an individual(with their consent) and that all of these should be declared public if over $1000 and should not exceed $10,000. Corporate political donations create a clear avenue of systematic corruption that exists to place private interests over the public good and should be seen as nothing other than a threat to true democracy. Interestingly enough, because of responsibilities to shareholders corporations are forbidden by law from contributing to parties unless they stand to gain from it in some way.

The second part of this petition is to ensure the taxpayers money that parties also receive is spent efficiently and in the best interest of the public. Public election campaign funds that are normally divided among the parties will first be used to send a small single leaflet to each household in Australia detailing the policies of all available parties. The remainder will be split among the parties as is usual.

This petition is designed to ensure that people know what policies they are voting for and not just the faces and slogans they are bombarded with by whichever party secures enough contributions(bribes) to do so. We(the signed) can see no reason why any party interested in true democracy would prevent these changes and only those willing to implement them deserve our vote.