WHOLE countries could run on the billions that donors splurged on America’s election. Some families might struggle on the political finance raised in South Australia, an Australian state of 1.9m people. Its parties reported donations of around A$1m ($730,000 at the time) in the eight months before its most recent election in 2022. Still, the state’s centre-left Labor government wants to take cash out of politics. On November 12th it introduced legislation to ban all political donations. The bill has wide support in the state’s parliament.
