Real-time disclosure would mean that former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull would have had to swiftly declare his $1.75 million donation to the Liberals in 2016.
The ACT senator has outlined in-principle support for the 2030 target but hopes it can go further,putting pressure on the Greens to support legislating the target.
The public is unlikely to care about the staff cuts the PM announced for crossbenchers,but it has forced the diverse group to form some quick and unlikely alliances.
The new crossbenchers have met as a group for the first time as 35 incoming MPs arrive at Parliament House to learn about being a politician.
New MP Monique Ryan,who unseated former treasurer Josh Frydenberg in Kooyong,warns Labor seats could be next.
Cuts to the staffing allocation of crossbench MPs is a slap in the face for newly elected independents and a setback for good governance and cultural renewal in Canberra.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it isn’t the case that crossbench politicians have to do more work than major party backbenchers and so need more staff.
The government could face an embarrassing loss of control of the Senate next month over cuts to independents’ staff allocations.
Cabinet ministers have defended Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s move to cut the staffing budgets of independent and minor party MPs as “common sense”.
Two key Senate crossbenchers are threatening to vote against government legislation after the prime minister slashed the number of advisers they will have in the new parliament.
Anthony Albanese led negotiations with the crossbench between 2010 and 2013. Now he’s thumbed his nose at the new batch of independents,some of whom he will need to pass laws.