Political Donations Exposed
You can now view organisations’ political party donations from 1996-2007 at TheyWorkForYou.co.nz. The donation information was extracted out of the Electoral Commission’s spreadsheet of party donation returns.
Not sure whether to display personal party donations on the site. Possibly I could aggregate the personal donations into a single amount for each party? Another piece of information that would be interesting to show is the $1,000,000+ of electoral advertising spending by members of the Exclusive Brethren church in 2005. Despite their stated “sole goal of Getting Party Votes” for a particular party, their spending didn’t match the definition of a party donation - hence doesn’t appear in the Electoral Commissions donation list.
Sun 21st Sep 2008
