Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws
A loophole in the Electoral Act means it’s perfectly legal to lie to voters – as long as it doesn’t happen during official ...
Advance targeting Wannon independent candidate Alex Dyson ahead of election being called to avoid breaking electoral laws
Conservative activist group Advance says it distributed flyers attacking an independent candidate before the start of this year’s federal election campaign to avoid a ban on misleading campaign ...
Ex-Labor MP targets Greens in Prahran, boosting Liberal hopeful’s bid
Tony Lupton tore up his ALP membership when the party declined to run a candidate in Prahran. His campaign against the Greens ...
Billionaire’s shock election claim
Under the Commonwealth Electoral Act, a deregistered party cannot re-register until the election after next. The UAP ...
Premier’s office and Jewish leaders slams neo-Nazi group National Socialist Movement (NSM) trying to run for parliament
The Victorian government has called on the electoral commission to reject a neo-Nazi group’s bid to run in future federal ...
Clive Palmer goes full tilt at the High Court again. Guess the outcome
Palmer labelled the electoral act “Draconian and unconstitutional”, arguing that it breaches the implied freedom of political ...
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‘Harassment’: Billionaire Clive Palmer’s shock claim in election fight
Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper Mr Palmer referenced the AEC’s loss of more than 1300 votes in Western Australia’s ... people from the Labor Party, from the Liberal Party, from all parties ...