Smothering charities: the plot to keep critics quiet next election

Can't stand politics?

Organisations like the Australian Conservation Foundation
would be allowed tax deductibility only if they cleaned up oil spills.

The good news is that when the election campaign proper begins, they'll ease off on the abuse and put forward policies. They'll have to.

And those policies will be scrutinised by just about every interest group there is. That's the way it works. They'll rate them, produce scorecards according to how they'll affect things such as education, health, defence, foreign aid and the environment, assessing what's being offered.

Unless the Coalition stops them. And it's minded to.

Read Peter Martin’s comment in today’s Melbourne Age - “Smothering charities: the plot to keep critics quiet next election.”