Rules that allowed Christian Porter to keep donors secret should be overhauled, committee finds
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Exclusive: Privileges committee says Porter didn't break rules but calls on all MPs to provide the greatest' transparency regarding the source of gifts
Christian Porter's declaration that part of his legal fees in a defamation case were paid by a blind trust" did not breach parliamentary rules, a powerful lower house committee has concluded, while calling for them to be updated.
A report by the privileges committee following an investigation into the former attorney general's disclosure of funds from the Legal Services Trust calls for the rules to be changed to uphold the intent and integrity" of the register of interests. The committee says MPs should provide the greatest" transparency on the source of gifts.
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