A Federal Court judge believes the Australian Electoral Commission behaved inappropriately when it warned former federal MP Craig Kelly about non-compliant political advertising in his electorate but did not tell him the exact location.Craig Kelly appeared in Federal Court in a dispute with the AEC over his 2022 campaign posters
After Mr Kelly received a letter from the AEC, he increased the font size in a subsequent print run and ordered stickers to attach to the original material as an attempted solution. During submissions from the AEC's barrister Christopher Tran about the seriousness of the offending, Justice Steven Rares today questioned the AEC's conduct.
"I just don't think that is an appropriate way for a regulator to be behaving, particularly where it's saying to the court this is such a serious thing there should be a pecuniary penalty and originally an injunction … on election eve. He argued that should be interpreted as "conspicuous and easily seen" and said eight-point font was "objectively very small".Mr Kelly's counsel, Dr Christopher Ward SC, yesterday argued the information was able to be read and it was simply a question of distance, suggesting an ordinary-sighted person could do so from one metre away.
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