Electoral reform of a sort

Im struggling to see the problem here.

From how I understand it, each pollie in a party, has a limit of 60k. I havent seen any mention of independants?

This means at the moment, the parties are allowed to spend around $400k each, almost as much as a new piece of public art.

In comparison, in the US presidential elections, there are suggestions that Obama’s election campaign this year will cost in excess of $1 billion.. Id prefer we have a smaller budget campaign than having our politicians accepting cash bribes from every sector before the election, then after the election, having to make politically smart decisions for all their donors interests.

Maybe with a smaller budget, they might focus on telling us about the things that actually matter and use some smarter more cost efficient methods of communication.

I’m not terribly fussed about the welfare of media outlets generally (though I would miss RA), but this is incredibly short-sighted, even for politicians, and worse still, it exacerbates the problem of having a political duopoly.

This is entirely hypocritical of the Labor party, too, since they seem to have a problem with a supermarket duopoly, when all Colesworths trade in is groceries. Political parties by contrast trade in ideas, and a political duopoly, especially one as lacking in diversity as the Laboral Party, entirely eliminates the possibility of intelligent and worthwhile political debate; a far more sinister evil than the coopetition in Colesworths.