Suchergebnisse

After a decade of declining votes and marginalisation within the Coalition, the future of National Party is uncertain. Will its insistence on its agrarian identity lead to its demise, will it amalgamate with federal and state Liberal parties across the country, or will it continue to be the great survivor of Australian politics?

Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Party rules: Promises and pitfalls -- Marian Sawer and Anika Gauja -- Resisting legal recognition and regulation: Australian parties as rational actors? -- Sarah John -- Party registration and political participation: Regulating small and 'micro' parties -- Norm Kelly -- Who gets what, when and how: The politics of resource allocation to parliamentary parties -- Yvonne Murphy -- Putting the cartel before the house? Public funding of parties in Queensland -- Graeme Orr -- More regulated, more level? Assessing the impact of spending and donation caps on Australian state elections -- Jennifer Rayner -- Dilemmas of party regulation: Hands-on courts versus hands‑off legislators? -- Anika Gauja -- Party rules: The regulatory 'gap' -- Anika Gauja and Marian Sawer -- Appendix: Federally registered political parties, 1984-2016 -- Figure 3.1 Number of registered parties at federal elections, 1984-2013 -- Figure 5.1 Growth in public funding rate (Commonwealth elections) -- Figure 5.2 Queensland Greens' income from public funding -- Figure 6.1 Queensland campaign spending, 2006-12 -- Figure 6.2 Queensland major party donations relative to spending, 2006-12 -- Figure 6.3 Queensland minor party donations relative to spending, 2006-12 -- Figure 6.4 NSW campaign spending, 2003-11 -- Figure 6.5 NSW major party donations relative to spending, 2003-11 -- Figure 6.6 NSW minor party donations relative to spending, 2003-11 -- Table 1.1 Date of first acknowledgement of political parties in national constitutions: Europe -- Table 1.2 Date of initial introduction of party regulation by jurisdiction -- Table 1.3. Additional resources allocated for minor parties* and Independents in the federal parliament -- Table 2.1 Levels of legal intervention in political parties

Party Rules: Dilemmas of Political Party Regulation in Australia. Edited by Anika Gauja and Marian Sawer (Canberra: ANU Press, 2017), pp. vii + 215. Nine Figures, 18 Tables. AU$34.99 (pb).

"Trust in political parties has never been lower, but we have more and more of them, to the point where voters need magnifying sheets to read ballot papers. What is the relationship between party regulation and the nature of our democracy? How is it that parties have been able to gather so many public resources yet with so little scrutiny of their affairs? This is the first book on party regulation in Australia. It covers a wide range of issues, from party donations to candidate selection, from expectations of parties in a representative democracy to the reluctance to regulate and the role of the courts where legislators fear to tread. 'The regulation of political parties is one of the most important, but unexplored areas of Australian electoral policy. This important book fills that gap in providing a stimulating and insightful analysis of the pitfalls and potential solutions in this area.' — Professor George Williams AO"