Senator Larissa Waters joins Democracy Sausage to talk electoral reform, resisting the far right and the Greens’ ongoing negotiations.

What’s stopping donations data from being revealed in real-time?

Do proposed donation reforms go far enough to strengthen Australian democracy?

And is the left too fractured to rise to the challenge at the next election?

On this episode of Democracy Sausage, Senator Larissa Waters joins Professor Mark Kenny to discuss political donations, truth in advertising and responding to the far right.

Senator Larissa Waters is the Leader of the Australian Greens in the Senate and represents the people of Queensland.

Mark Kenny is the Director of the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He came to the University after a high-profile journalistic career including six years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times.

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