They've handed themselves millions in taxpayer funding whilst implementing unbalanced spending and donations caps that will make it far more difficult for anyone else to compete.
If left unchallenged, these laws will dramatically reduce competition in the political arena, and leave you with fewer choices at election time.
Independents Zoe Daniel and Rex Patrick are fighting back, and taking the government to the High Court to ask for these laws to be overturned.
But the government doesn’t need to wait for the courts to fix these unfair laws.
If you believe our democracy is worth defending, sign this petition to support Zoe and Rex’s Fair Elections Case and tell the government it is time to scrap these undemocratic election laws.
A healthy democracy must accommodate newcomers and competition — instead, these new laws will dramatically increase major-party and incumbency advantages and impose disproportionate constraints on new challengers. They’re designed to shut out competitors and prop up the major parties, at a time when Australians are abandoning them in record numbers.
If left unchallenged, these laws will dramatically reduce competition in the political arena, closing it off to new entrants and leaving you with fewer choices at election time.
That’s where you come in. Join the fight today.
Independents are strictly capped at $800k per year for their campaign, while a $90m cap for parties allows them to significantly outspend challengers.

Labor and the Coalition will get an extra $62m in taxpayer funding each electoral cycle.
If these laws had applied to the 2025 election, public funding would have covered 61% of Labor’s $90 million spending cap and 46% of the Liberals’. Independents, by contrast, would have received an average of just 14% of their far smaller $800,000 cap.

Major parties, through their federal and state branches, can collect up to $450k per year from a single donor. Independents cannot receive more than $50k per year from a single donor (even crowdfunded donors like Climate 200 and others).

If these new laws had been in place in the lead up to the 2025 election independents would have lost over $11m in donations. Based on the current available data, the major parties would have lost almost nothing.
