Last chance to register

Tomorrow is the final day people can register to be third parties. From tomorrow it will be too late, and if an issue arises that you want to spend money on advocating for or against, you will be restricted to just $12,000.

Take an example. Think if the Government announced this Monday rather than last Monday their $150 billion bank deposit guarantee. And think if you were in an affected sector and thought the scheme announced would be a disaster because (for example) it includes finance companies. The cost of getting it wrong could be billions. But you would be restricted to spending $12,000 advocating against a $150 billion bank deposit guarantee scheme unless you managed to do it without criticising the parties advocating it in a way that could turn voters off them.