The treasurer is dampening expectations of another budget surplus, lies designed to win votes in election campaigns would be outlawed under new laws and push to outlaw gang violence videos.
Independent MP Kate Chaney is speaking about the government’s push to ban . This masthead reported senior goverent sources confirmed the government will seek to legislate “truth in advertising” laws in its upcoming suite of electoral reforms on which opposition MPs will imminently be briefed.Based on a scheme in place in South Australia, the narrowly defined law will probably create powers to compel the removal of demonstrable falsehoods.
“Accepting that people can just tell lies in political advertising … is worse for us as a community, than making some attempts to actually determine truth and falsehoods,” she said.Giving the Australian Electoral Commission the power to determine falsehoods would be “a sensible place to start”, Chaney said. The independent said if the AEC were to take on the role it would need to be resourced properly.
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