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On Easter Saturday 2008 there was a seismic shift on political donations reform in NSW. Premier Morris Iemma announced that he now supported a ban on political donations. This was a major reversal of NSW Labor policy. For years the Premier and former Premier Bob Carr had resisted overhauling the NSW political funding regime, arguing that national reform was the only way new laws would work.
Within a few hours of Premier Iemma's backflip being reported in the Sydney Morning Herald opposition leader Barry O'Farrell followed suit and reversed the Liberal's opposition to a donation ban.
While the tipping point for the major parties on this issue was certainly the Wollongong corruption scandal, years of campaigning by the Greens and numerous community groups on the corrupting influence of corporate donations has helped lay the basis for the exposure of this damaging aspect of how the Labor, Liberal and National parties operate.
Political donations have grown to be a cancer on the democratic process.
Read the Greens' full summary of NSW's donations law reforms.
* NEW* February 2009 - Read the Greens NSW submission to the Senate Green Paper into Electoral Funding Reform
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