Labor and Liberals will get double their public funding if biased electoral rules are passed, Climate 200 says

Australia’s two major political parties will more than double their public funding at the 2028 federal election to reap a combined $140m under the government’s proposed changes to electoral laws, according to the organisation which funded successful teal independent candidates at the 2022 election. Climate 200 has calculated the likely increase in the amount the Labor and Liberal parties could claim in public funding at the 2028 election, after the proposed new system is slated to take effect. As a result of the percentage of the vote they secured at the 2022 election, the two parties received a combined total

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