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Claiming he was not an anti-vaxxer, Mr Kelly denied he would present a risk to older and vulnerable voters on the campaign trail. Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Help using this website - Accessibility statement. Politics Federal Federal election Print article. Tom McIlroy Political reporter.

Updated Aug 23, — The canary yellow billboards are back in Queensland. Ahead of the state election this month, the mining billionaire Clive Palmer has launched another anti-Labor spoiler campaign.

He was a National and Liberal man most of his life. In the final weeks, the businessman changed strategy and launched a series of attacks ads designed to damage and discredit Labor , rather than attempting to win seats for the United Australia party. At the same time, LNP members have privately expressed a growing unease that any perception Palmer is in cahoots with the opposition could undermine their chances.

Guardian Australia understands preference discussions between Palmer and the LNP have already taken place. Palmer jumped in to answer. Follow our live coverage for the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic.

The AEC issued a notice of intention to deregister the businessman's party, giving Mr Palmer a month to respond before a final decision was made. This week, Mr Palmer applied to the Federal Court to stop the AEC going ahead with deregistration on a number of legal grounds, including an alleged breach of the rules of natural justice, failure to follow due procedure, and improper exercise of power. Two weeks later, the AEC notified the party that it could not match membership names with names on the electoral roll and requested UAP supply an alternative list.

But a week later, the AEC said it still could not match people with the electoral roll. UAP supplied another list on August 6 and, according to Mr Palmer, his party was notified that the AEC would be carrying out a random sample of members.

On September 17, the AEC issued a statement saying it was considering deregistration. Mr Palmer has alleged the AEC followed an invalid process in full knowledge that the party had satisfied the member test at the state level, with the Electoral Commission of Queensland ECQ registering his party in April. Those harms could be defined and circumscribed in the Electoral Act without too much difficulty and would certainly include harms to public health.

There is precedent. Abhorrent violent material was confined in its definition to mean murder or attempted murder, a terrorist act, torture, rape or kidnapping. There are provisions to allow for the reporting of these acts. That situation only sharpens the paradox. As matters stand, Australia is leaving it to powerful foreign sources such as YouTube, unelected and unaccountable, to restrain the likes of Kelly, as when it recently suspended Sky News for spreading COVID misinformation.

Instead of confronting the paradox, the Australian parliament seems content to outsource to the global media platforms control over how our democratic freedoms are governed. Neither of the major parties has shown the slightest interest in engaging with this problem. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth.

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