Teals, community independents, and, probably Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party may be able to walk around Labor's manipulation of the electoral laws to put themselves on an equal footing with Labor in their capacity to attract virtually unlimited donations, and, probably, increased access to public funding.
They need a party structure to get into the Labor rort. Only with it can they expand the sums they can spend. The Liberals are part of the rort, too, but face disaster at the next election - and a decline in public funding of perhaps $18 million.
As the debate of recent weeks has demonstrated, most of the teals and other moderate independents are not much attracted by the idea of becoming a party, even if to get out of restrictions imposed on them by Labor and the Coalition.
