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• Comment Link Giovedì, 28 Novembre 2024 00:11 posted by oracle.the-kgb.com

  Do Greens and crossbenchers who claim that transparency and
  integrity is at the heart of their reason for entering Parliament in the first place hear themselves?
  
  
  In the past few days they have mounted self-serving arguments against proposed electoral
  reforms that the major parties look set to come together to support.
  
  
  
  The reforms include caps for how much money wealthy individuals can donate, caps on the
  amount candidates can spend in individual electorates
  to prevent the equivalent of an arms race, and a $90million limit on what any party can spend at an election - actually less than the major parties currently spend.
  
  
  The proposed new laws also include lower disclosure thresholds for donations, thus increasing the transparency of who makes political donations in the
  first place.
  
  So the wealthy wont be able to hide behind anonymity while using their cash to influence election outcomes - and the
  extent to which they can use their wealth at all will be limited.
  
  
  The bill will further improve transparency by also increasing the speed and frequency that
  disclosures of donations need to be made.
  
  
  At present we have the absurd situation in which donations get made -
  but you only find out the details of who has given what to whom many months later,
  well after elections are won and lost.
  
  In other words, what is broadly being proposed will result in much greater transparency and far
  less big money being injected into campaigning by the wealthy.
  
  
  
  
  
  Teal Kylea Tink claimed the major parties were 'running scared' with the policy and
  warned the reform would 'not stop the rot' 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Greens senate leader Larissa Waters (left) fired a warning shot
  - saying if it serves only the major parties 'it's
  a rort, not reform'. Teal independent ACT senator David Pocock (right) said: 'What seems to be happening is a major-party stitch-up'
  
  Anyone donating more than $1,000 to a political party, as opposed to $16,
  000 under the current rules, will need to disclose having done
  so. And how much they can donate will be capped.
  
  
  
  Yet the Greens and Teals have quickly condemned the proposed new laws, labeling them a 'stitch-up', 'outrageous' and 'a rort, not
  a reform'. 
  
  They have lost their collective minds after finding out that Labor's proposal just might
  secure the support of the opposition.
  
  I had to double check who was criticising what exactly before even starting to write this
  column.
  
  Because I had assumed - incorrectly - that these important transparency measures stamping out the influence of the wealthy must have been proposed
  by the virtue-signalling Greens or the corruption-fighting Teals,
  in a united crossbench effort to drag the major parties closer to accountability.
  
  
  
  More fool me.
  
  The bill, designed to clean up a rotten system, is being put forward by Labor and
  is opposed by a growing cabal of crossbenchers.
  
  
  It makes you wonder what they have to hide.
  Put simply, the Greens and Teals doth protest too much on this issue.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Labor is thought to be trying to muscle out major political donors such as
  Clive Palmer
  
  
  
  
  
  Another potential target of the laws is businessman and Teal funder Simon Holmes à Court
  
  
  
  
  
  The Greens have taken massive donations in the past, contrary to
  their irregular calls to tighten donations rules (Greens leader Adam Bandt and Senator Mehreen Faruqi are pictured)
  
  The major parties have long complained about the influence
  the likes of Simon Holmes à Court wields behind the scenes amongst
  the Teals. 
  
  And we know the Greens have taken massive donations from the wealthy in the past, contrary to their irregular
  calls to tighten donations rules.
  
  Now that tangible change has been proposed, these bastions of virtue are
  running a mile from reforms that will curtail dark art of political donations.
  
  
  The Labor government isn't even seeking for these transparency rules to take effect immediately, by the way.
  
  It won't be some sort of quick-paced power play before the next election designed to catch the crossbench out.
  
  
  They are aiming for implementation by 2026, giving everyone enough time to absorb and understand the changes
  before preparing for them.
  
  Don't get me wrong, no deal has yet been done between Labor and the
  Coalition. I imagine the opposition want to go over the laws with a fine tooth comb.
  
  
  As they should - because it certainly isn't beyond Labor to include hidden one-party advantages in the proposed design which would
  create loopholes only the unions are capable of taking
  advantage of, therefore disadvantaging the Coalition electorally in the years
  to come.
  
  But short of such baked-in trickiness scuttling a deal to get
  these proposed laws implemented, the crossbench should offer their support, not cynical opposition, to what is
  being advocated for.
  
  They might even be able to offer something worthwhile that could be incorporated in the package.
  
  
  To not do so exposes their utter hypocrisy and blowhard false commentary about being in politics
  to 'clean things up'.
• Comment Link Giovedì, 28 Novembre 2024 00:07 posted by ร้านทํา พวงหรีดใกล้ฉัน

  By Maria Martinez
  
  LUXEMBOURG, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Germany's economic model is not broken but Europe's biggest economy has lost competitiveness
  over the past decade, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Monday.
  
  
  "We can't be satisfied with the economic developments in Germany," he
  told journalists ahead of a Eurogroup meeting.
  
  The German economy is expected to contract by 0.2% in 2024, an economy ministry spokesperson said on Monday,
  cutting the forecast from a previous projection of 0.3% growth this year.
  
  
  If realised, this would be the second consecutive year of contraction for Germany's economy, which was the
  weakest among its large euro zone peers last year with a 0.3% decline in gross domestic product.
  
  
  Lindner said the government was introducing supply-side measures to try to return the economy to growth.
  
  
  "After these reforms, Germany will have more competitiveness again," Lindner said,
  adding that the growth initiative was just a first step for an economic turnaround, "but we have to build on it."
  
  AMBITION NEEDED
  
  Lindner said "ambition" was needed to keep EU public finances in order, or to put them
  back in order where necessary.
  
  "I can only encourage everyone to implement structural reforms and to make unpopular decisions," Lindner said.
  
  "What seems to be unpopular at the moment is the willingness to take responsibility for the next generation and for the stability of the European Union as a whole."
  
  Lindner said he could not comment on the French budget plans
  because he had not had the chance to talk with his French
  colleagues yet, but he would do so on Monday evening.
  
  
  "We should all realise that the credibility of public finances vis-à-vis the capital markets is not to be trifled with," Lindner said.
  
  
  "We must credibly reduce our deficits and our debt so that we can continue to finance ourselves well and in a stable manner."
  
  (Reporting by Maria Martinez, Editing by Miranda Murray
  and Christina Fincher)
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