Di Natale, Sen Richard

Senator DI NATALE (Victoria—Leader of the Australian Greens) (14:26): The government's and indeed the opposition's response to the Senator Dastyari controversy has sidestepped the deeper problem lying at the heart of our democracy, and that, of course, is that political influence can be bought through donations, whether they're foreign, whether they're from corporations, whether they're from third parties or whether they're from other individuals. With this in mind, will the government now support strict caps for political donations across the board, and will the government support a national anticorruption watchdog?