The Wire
Simon Pound and Shane Cave
MP3, 5m43s, 1.3MB, first broadcast 14 September 2006
The government has mooted the possibility of passing retrospective legislation to legitimise up to $800,000 of extra election advertising spending. Retrospective legislation often raises serious ethical issues, and is an uneasy creature in natural law. Yesterday it emerged from a Dominion Post story that one consequence of such a move would be a negative effect on our international corruption perception index. What is this and what could it mean? Shane Cave of Transparency
International joins Simon.
