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The Opportunity Party is vowing to “clean up politics” by regulating lobbying and reforming political donations.

It would look to cap political donations and establish an independent anti-corruption body to centralise and coordinate action against corruption.

The underlying principle of the policy was simple, she said.

"New Zealanders should be confident that political decisions are made in their interests, not because somebody has the biggest cheque book or the best access to a minister.

In order to regulate lobbying, the party would introduce a Political Influence and Lobbying Bill that would create a one-year cooling-off period, “closing the revolving door” between ministers, senior staff and officials, and lobbying roles.

It would also create a mandatory, public and searchable lobbying register, with quarterly disclosure of who lobbied which office-holders, as well as a statutory code of conduct for lobbyists and foreign lobbying safeguards.

The party’s proposal would introduce a $30,000 cap per donor per party per electoral cycle, limit donations to registered voters, lower the public disclosure threshold to $1000 and apply advertising spending limits across the full three-year electoral cycle for parties and candidates.

The party would also establish an anti-corruption body with “investigative, prevention, and education functions, integrating and co-ordinating existing anti-corruption responsibilities”.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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    11 hours ago

    I’d be keen to see limits on political advertising from non-parties. Free Speech Union. Taxpayers Union. Hobson’s Pledge.

    I’m sure there are some that aren’t far-right that would be affected but it seems the far-right is where most of the advertising money is.

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      23 minutes ago

      I would go so far as to limit all political advertising to registered political parties only.

      Any political adverts from non-parties carry heavy penalties; prison/fines.

      The way to determine if it is political advertising; simple. If the advert isn’t selling a product or service that you can actually buy; then the message is likely political. This could then be scrutinized much further.

      Undermining democracy; is effectively trying to pervert society for your own gain.

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      9 hours ago

      Yes. I am disheartened by the financial support the far right has. I’m surprised Labour hasn’t tried to fight this battle, personally. They can’t think they’d ever attract that funding from those particular funders themselves, so why hold back?

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        6 hours ago

        They’re the same neolib cocksuckers as everywhere else and they will go the same way. Labour UK, SPD Germany, the Dems in the US, all dead-in-the-water, once great, political institutions that abandoned their base in the persuit of cash are now consigned to the dustbin of history - they won’t come back. Workers hate them and the capitalist class they courted for 40 years actually prefers fascism. The working class leftie has no true representation anymore, just a series of managerial parties that exist to sell them the shit that their masters dictate while they rob our societies blind.