The former boss of the Victorian Liberals will pay $40,000 in fines after a court found he fell foul of electoral advertising laws and undermined voters’ rights.
One of the newspaper ads was a full-page attack on the sitting Labor MP, Libby Coker, while another was a full-page portrait of the Liberal candidate for Corangamite, Stephanie Asher, along with a how-to-vote card, the federal court heard. The judge said while the final days of a campaign may be busy, “the need to protect free and informed voting is not diminished as election day approaches”.
The judge found the Liberal party’s processes were not robust enough to ensure the contraventions did not happen.
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