The besieged NSW Labor machine suddenly comes up with a solution to starve the Coalition of funds for the forthcoming March 2011 election.
NSW Labor, long the recipient of donations for decisions suddenly thinks only 3rd parties should be allowed to spend large amounts of money on election campaigns, but under their scheme unions as well as left wing fellow travellers such as Get Up are deemed to be 3rd parties.
The term 3rd parties usually conjures up a notion of impartiality – you know, weighing things up, getting the balance right (to borrow a phrase) judging things on their merits.
But no. Under NSW Labor it means allowing your union affiliates to spend $1 million dollars each, including $20,000 in each electorate to influence voters.
NSW has 22 affiliated unions, so there’s a war chest of over $22 million for Labor for starters plus all the ‘help’ we now have documented as coming from Get Up.
Get Up is a front if ever there was one. Prior to the 2010 election, we now know, they took $1.12 million in cash from the CFMEU during the election and funded TV ads attacking Tony Abbott’s ‘archaic’ views on women and indigenous affairs.
Pleading their independence they call themselves an independent, grassroots community advocacy organisation and say they receive no money from politicians or government. Read more.
NSW Labor, long the recipient of donations for decisions suddenly thinks only 3rd parties should be allowed to spend large amounts of money on election campaigns, but under their scheme unions as well as left wing fellow travellers such as Get Up are deemed to be 3rd parties.
The term 3rd parties usually conjures up a notion of impartiality – you know, weighing things up, getting the balance right (to borrow a phrase) judging things on their merits.But no. Under NSW Labor it means allowing your union affiliates to spend $1 million dollars each, including $20,000 in each electorate to influence voters.
NSW has 22 affiliated unions, so there’s a war chest of over $22 million for Labor for starters plus all the ‘help’ we now have documented as coming from Get Up.
Get Up is a front if ever there was one. Prior to the 2010 election, we now know, they took $1.12 million in cash from the CFMEU during the election and funded TV ads attacking Tony Abbott’s ‘archaic’ views on women and indigenous affairs.
Pleading their independence they call themselves an independent, grassroots community advocacy organisation and say they receive no money from politicians or government. Read more.