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No donations, strict caps, taxpayer-funded campaigns: South Australia is running a world-first experiment in democracy. Will it restore trust or entrench incumbents?
Australia’s political parties are confronting a long-standing issue that has been gradually worsening over many years: the decline in party membership and the diminishing local political machinery that historically supported them.
