While some of the amendments made to the associated entities' annual returns has been reported previously, the reviews provide new details about the circumstances of the changes and the pattern of findings made by the AEC.
Because the associated entity is making the donation, the original donor does not need to be identified in the party's own disclosures.
Its finding that the associated entity was essentially acting as an agent for political donors could potentially lead other parties to be made to make further political disclosures.
A many-to-many relationship transforms into a table that contains the primary keys of the associated entities as its composite primary key; the components of that key are also designated as foreign keys in SQL.
The Free Enterprise Foundation is one of a number of associated entities of the Liberal party that receives political donations, which are in turn passed on to the NSW Liberal party.
The Free Enterprise Foundation is one of a number of associated entities of the Liberal party that receives political donations from donors, which is in turn passed on the NSW Liberal party.
In the Senate, Labor asked Sinodinos about his role as NSW finance director during the time that the NSW party is accused by the NSW Electoral Commission of "washing" property industry donations – prohibited at state level – through the federal "associated entity, the Free Enterprise Foundation".
As revealed by Guardian Australia, Labor used the special sittings of parliament this month to set up the snap Senate committee to investigate the oversight of associated entities, such as the federal Liberal party's Free Enterprise Foundation, which the New South Wales electoral commission says was used to "wash" property developer donations which had been outlawed in that state.
But its visibility has seen attempts by the Coalition to curb its influence, most recently over GetUp's refusal to identify as an "associated entity" of Labor and the Greens political parties.
The Labor leader in the Senate, Penny Wong, successfully moved a motion on Tuesday afternoon to refer the oversight of associated entities to the finance and public administration references committee.
The finance and public administration committee will consider the funding and disclosure regime relating to annual returns, and the powers of the Australian Electoral Commission with respect to supervision of associated entities of political parties.
