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Nine months after the 2022 federal election, voters finally get a look at how much the parties spent and who funded their campaigns.

Revelation likely to add to transparency stakeholders calls’ for caps on political donations

Mineralogy was the single biggest political donor last financial year, pouring $116 million into Queensland businessman Clive Palmer's United Australia Party. Both Labor and the Liberals each received more than $100 million in donations.

For many voters despairing about the gridlock and lack of integrity in Australian politics in recent years, the success of the teal independents in the May 2022 federal election was an exhilarating moment. They won six formerly safe Liberal seats, returned four independents - Zali Steggall in Warringah, Helen Haines…

Of four state election candidates backed by Climate 200, two remain in contention – but both trail Liberals

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In today’s newsletter: Indonesia is counting the cost of a magnitude-5.6 earthquake, Simon Holmes à Court signals support for independents in New South Wales election

Climate 200 is looking at ‘seven to 10’ seats in the state and has had discussions with groups in ‘most’ of them

Two independent candidates say the complaint to the state’s electoral commission is ‘unfounded’

Razor-thin margins put Brighton, Caulfield and Sandringham within striking distance this Victorian election – but the major parties remain quietly confident

I suspect Australians don’t want to be spectators in an electoral arms race where wealthy individuals exercise oversized influence in our democracy