[LINK] online access to Political Funding & Disclosures

[Chris Maltby]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:12:14PM +1000, Sylvano wrote:
> I visited the Funding and Disclosure pages at the The Australian Electoral 
> Commission website when their recent email update advised of deadlines for 
> relevant people and organisations to submit financial details. 
> 
> The online tool at http://fadar.aec.gov.au/arwdefault.asp gives access to 
> details back to the 1998/1999 financial year.
> 
> But it's a bit painful, and you just wonder why there isn't some kind of .csv 
> download.  Partly, I suppose because a part of the focus is on accessing .pdf 
> facsimiles of original documents.  

That's why the Greens made the Democracy for Sale site at
   <http://democracy4sale.org/>

Chris