Capping donations but permitting cash-for-access dinners would be a ‘rort’, Greens warn

Greens leader Adam Bandt told the party’s national conference that Australia’s ‘two party system is dying’ but Labor and the Coalition ‘won’t go down without a dirty fight’ involving electoral funding. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Adam Bandt has said that capping donations while allowing cash-for-access dinners is a “rort not a reform”, warning the major parties against possible “collusion” to make it harder for independents and minor parties to be elected.

The Greens leader sounded the alarm at the party’s national conference on Saturday, accusing Labor and the Coalition of aiming to “rig the electoral funding system, making it harder for Greens candidates, or independents, to compete fairly”.