Morning everyone. Ever since Clive Palmer spent $117m at the last election, there have been growing calls for curbs on political donations. Now an alliance of crossbenchers want to outlaw gifts of more than $1.5m. We have the full story, plus what to expect from the Reserve Bank meeting this afternoon, Donald Trump’s money problems, and how Vladimir Putin has celebrated his landslide election victory so huge it might have made even the most hardline autocrat blush.
