Comments on: Help end secret contributions to political parties in New Zealand

By: Believe the Hype « Something should go here, maybe later.

Believe the Hype « Something should go here, maybe later. — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:53:23 +0000

[...] supportive of the bill, and are suggesting amendments along the lines of those suggested by the Coalition for Open Government: a tighter definition of “electoral advertisement”, a higher cap for third parties, [...]

By: Colin Bruce Milne

Colin Bruce Milne — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:37:28 +0000

We could look at abolishing the secrecy of all Inland Revenue Department taxpayer databases as one method of checking up on political corruption.We should cut out the middle-man by making donations to political parties being subject to the same rebate system as those for Churches(who are another Idealogical pressure group anyway) and charities.I am also suspicious that some big business donors also are allowed to get get away with tax dodge schemes as exemplified by the ‘winebox’case in wich the tax department did not enforce the laws on those tax breakers who gave megabucks to the establishment political parties.

By: Rosscoe Brown

Rosscoe Brown — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:10:04 +0000

govt needs to be transparent and open to public scrutiny, otherwise politicians will need performance contracts