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Aleksandra Bliszczyk

Labor Has Banned Blind Trusts So MPs Can’t Get Big Anonymous Donations À La Christian Porter

Christian Porter Labor
The Federal Government has banned blind trusts, which are a way for members of the public to donate anonymously to ministers, in its new code of conduct after the whole Christian Porter disaster. Remember Christian Porter? Never thought I’d be writing news related to him again but he was the former Attorney-General and Liberal MP who in 2021 was accused of historical rape. He sued the ABC for defamation over publishing the allegations and got his legal fees partly paid for by a blind trust. Porter disclosed the donations in his declaration of interests but didn’t disclose where they came from because he said he literally didn’t know
the government shut that down and voted against it in parliamentpublic outcryhe resigned from the partyAnthony Albanesethan we know aboutdisclosure threshold goes up

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