From Newsgroup: aus.politics
*Fire the Liar, Stop One Nation, Big Donations - and Still No Truth in Advertising Laws*
/Swollen Pickles, 40k subscribers, 25 Jun 2026/ <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyfeEgsNmPc>
"Australia has no federal truth in political advertising laws and both
major parties have been perfectly fine with that.
Labor spent years promising truth in political advertising reform only
to let their own bill lapse when they had the opportunity to push it
through. Now they're engaged in donation wars with One Nation with both
sides looking to fund ads targeting one another - and currently there
are no laws in place to ensure the content of those ads be truthful."
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It is long overdue to bring in immediate harshly deterring measures
against spreading intentionally lying political advertising/propaganda specially in election campaigns. I'd like to see immediate criminal law interventions no matter who the offenders may be.
And the same goes for political donations! Time to ban all of it. There
must be better ways to finance democratic campaigns transparently.
BTW if a billionaire donates 10K times $100 does that count as some sort
of amazing 10K grass roots donation support towards a political party?
Just asking! I wonder what Gina thinks about that?
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