Brazil's electoral law bans foreign donations.
To make matters even less transparent, the electoral commission only publishes donations exceeding $12,400.
The NSW premier, Mike Baird, said in March the party had done "the wrong thing" after the state's electoral commission ruled the donations had breached electoral funding laws.
The Sunday Times claims the offer was made even though Cruddas knew the money would come from a fund in Liechtenstein that was not eligible to make donations under electoral law.
In Georgia, where a significant portion of the population lives below the poverty line and the unemployment rate hovers at 16 percent, funding like that is not incidental, and it's completely reasonable for the government to pass electoral reforms limiting corporate donations and strictly auditing campaign funding.
Ireland's electoral law prohibits foreign donations, but some campaigns had been accused of circumventing this rule by using ads bought on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, as well as Google.
The NSW Electoral Commission has ruled the donations breach state electoral laws, and is refusing to pay the Liberals $4.4m in public funding until the party coughs up details of the donors.
The Greens' leader, Senator Christine Milne, said on Monday night her party would oppose any legislation that didn't "clamp down on corporate donations and runaway electoral spending to stop what is now an 'arms race'".
In March, the NSW Electoral Commission ruled that several donations breached state electoral laws and refused to pay the Liberals $4.4m in public funding it sought until the party gave details of the donors.
Undisclosed donations poured into electoral politics after the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, which allowed corporations and certain tax-exempt charities to spend unlimited amounts to influence outcomes.
