Election Campaign Funding

Election Campaign Funding

The Council of Trade Unions organised forums in 2007 to encourage public debate on proposed reforms to election campaign funding.

NEW: June 2008: The Hollow Men book is now a film - see the report in the CTU's newsletter The Unionist or visit the film's website here.

Events:

• Auckland forum - May 1 2007 - click here for more details
• Wellington forum - March 27 2007 - click here for details of the Wellington event, including a podcast of the night
• Wellington forum - September 4 2007.  Click here for details.

Downloads/Links

• CTU media release: More Transparent Election Law Welcome - December 18 2007  
• CTU opinion piece, Electoral Finance Bill, December 3 2007 - click here
• CTU media release: Real Threat To Transparent Elections Comes From Shadowy Corporates, Not Unions - April 17 2007 
• CTU opinion piece, April 16 2007 - click here. NZ Herald article covering the opinion piece - click here.
• Podcast of Wellington CTU forum on election funding - click here
• Submission: CTU submission on the Electoral Finance Bill (link to page where you can download as a PDF or word document)