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Blimps, billboards and a $400,000 hole: The Liberal debt crisis haunting Bennelong
Scott Yung spent big trying to win Bennelong during the 2025 federal election. Now insiders say he won’t pay the Liberal Party back.
- Max Maddison
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Liberal campaign ads aired during election advertising blackout
The ads for Coalition frontbencher Dan Tehan were inadvertently aired by a regional broadcaster during a popular local racing carnival just before the election.
- Brittany Busch
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Social climbers: How Perth independents are bypassing mainstream media to reach voters
Social media is playing a bigger role in political campaigns, but no WA candidates are doing it as effectively as Kate Hulett in Fremantle and Kate Chaney in Curtin.
- Mark Naglazas
‘Copied the MAGA model’: The ‘grassroots’ lobby group funded by some of Australia’s richest
The Advance propaganda machine is aimed at ordinary Australians but backed by some of our wealthiest – and has links to a right-wing US foundation.
- Tim Elliott
Liberals Against Nuclear campaign advertisement
A new group of Coalition voters has formed to campaign against the party's nuclear energy policy.
Backlash over Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots gender advertisements
Transgender and equality advocacy groups are outraged over a series of political ads published in major newspapers.
- Calum Jaspan
Monique Ryan and Allegra Spender spend more than $150,000 on Google and Meta ads
In the last three months, the major parties, lobby groups and unions have also spent hundreds of thousands on social media in a bid to reach voters online.
- Olivia Ireland
Greens to call News Corp execs to greenwashing inquiry over gas ads
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says News Corp should explain its alleged attempt to disguise paid “propaganda” as news.
- Calum Jaspan
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Right-wing group targets Greens in million-dollar ad blitz
Conservative group Advance, which advocated for the No vote in last year’s Voice to parliament referendum, is ramping up its attacks on the Greens.
- James Massola