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 Here's what Prime Minister, John Howard had to say:
LAURIE OAKES: Are you fair dinkum about the idea of banning unions from contributing funds to the Labor Party?
JOHN HOWARD: Whose idea is that?
LAURIE OAKES: Well it was floated in one of the weekend newspapers - the suggestion being that your Minister favours it.
JOHN HOWARD: Well I, I don’t think you could fairly ban a union from
contributing to the Labor Party without saying that companies can’t
contribute to the Labor Party or the Liberal Party. I don’t know that I
would agree with it. I think, I think there is a, there’s an argument
about the extent to which member unions consent to their dues being
used to fund a party they don’t support, and we have long argued that
there should be arrangements made, separated out.
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 Paul Keating, former Prime Minister said:
"I think we would be better off if developers were forbidden from
donating election funds to municipal candidates and to political
parties."
The Financial Review, 06/04/2001
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Former NSW Labor Party secretary, Mark Arbib has said:
"With elections becoming much more expensive, political parties are more and more reliant on corporate donations.
It's time for the party to develop new policies to counter this
reliance and ensure the integrity of Australia's political system is
maintained."
The Australian, 05/11/2004
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 Malcolm Turnbull, former Treasurer of the Liberal Party and now
Environment Minister and high-profile MP for the Sydney seat of
Wentworth, has spoken out on the record about donations and the need
for campaign finance reform.
In 2007 he repeated his opinion that a ban on corporate and union donations would ensure fairly even funding of both parties.
Crikey.com, 13/08/2004
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 Labor's defence of donations is contradicted by one of their own, then ALP President Carmen Lawrence. "It disturbs me, as it should all citizens, that there are some who are more equal than others.
Corporations do not make large donations out of a charitable impulse or
a commitment to civic duty... We do not know how much is being spent to
inform, persuade and cajole our decision-makers. It is time we
subjected the process to scrutiny, and judged the decisions of our
governments knowing who has been in their ears."
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