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Joo-Cheong Tham is a senior law lecturer at Melbourne University. With Sally Young, senior lecturer in media and communications at the University of Melbourne, he is the co-author of a report on Australian political finance for the Democratic Audit of Australia. His forthcoming book on political funding in Australia will be published by UNSW Press.