Introducingthe Twitter bot that lets you know when an Australian political party has realised they’ve forgotten to declare a donation,and when a politician has declared a unique gift or trade interestWhen Bill Shorten recently revealed previously undeclared donations totalling $70000 from 2007, the Victorian department of the Labor party filed an amendment to the Australian Electoral Commission.
This isn’t an isolated incident. Many political parties have had to make amendments, or either because their lack of disclosure has been discovered by the AEC or a journalist doing some digging,or it’s a mistake that they’ve realised internally.
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Source: theguardian.com