12 Apr 2019

Foreign political donations

From The Panel, 4:37 pm on 12 April 2019

The SIS has warned that some overseas powers want to influence New Zealand politics through donations. The SIS Director Rebecca Kitteridge laid out the case to the Justice Select committee also saying that foreign language news media could be used to persuade expatriate communities to put pressure on MPs. Constitutional lawyer Graeme Edgeler talks about banning foreign political donations.