The government’s plan also affects campaign spending, donation disclosures and truth in advertising – and has upset Clive Palmer and teal independents
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The Albanese government’s suite of electoral law reforms would result in about $50m more public funding relative to the 2022 election, with Labor and Liberal parties each set to scoop about an extra $19m if the vote share of the last election were replicated.
That is the result of increasing public funding of elections to $5 a vote from July 2026, one of the central planks of Labor’s bill to introduce electoral spending and donation caps.
