The High Court has taken an axe to the Victorian Electoral Act, chopping out the entirety of Part 12.
It deals with election spending, caps on political donations, three different types of public funding (for election campaigns, party administration and policy development), along with the disclosure regime for donations.
The Victorian parliament will be scrambling to reconstruct and reenact it in a constitutionally valid manner in the lead up to the Victorian election in November this year.
