Background Briefing Paper: Preventing election pork-barrelling
Preventing election pork-barrelling
7 March 2024
Why We Need a Transparent Election Promises System
Whether making election funding promises to corporates or promising grants to electorate groups during election campaigns – the bottom line is these promises involve public money.
Therefore, the public have a right to know, and to have confidence in, the decision making processes underpinning those election promises made by political parties.
Tasmania has an appalling track-record when it comes to integrity or transparency in election policy and funding promises.
The Briefing Paper can be viewed below as a pdf or here:
