Fed: Election funding facts

AAP General News (Australia)
12-17-2008
Fed: Election funding facts

Electoral funding and money spent on election campaigns:

Public and private funding received 1999-00 to 2001-02

* Labor - $116.9 million

* Liberals - $102 million

Public and private funding received 2002-03 to 2004-05

* Labor - $150.8m

* Liberals - $133.4m

* $49 million in public funding was paid out to all political parties after the 2007
federal election; private donations figures for 2007 are yet to be released by the Australian
Electoral Commission

Spending on campaigns

* Labor spending increased by 116 per cent from 1984 to 2004

* Labor spent about $19.3m on the 2004 federal election campaign

* Liberals' spending increased 136 per cent from 1984 to 2004

* Liberals spent about $22m on the 2004 federal election campaign

Source: Electoral Reform Green Paper, December 2008.

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