The bizarre affair of Labor candidate George Newhouse’s candidacy in Malcolm Turnbull’s Sydney seat of Wentworth at the November Federal Election is still bubbling away very nicely, writes Alex Mitchell.
Freedom of information request
What did the AEC say about electoral law changes? Don’t ask
We can’t tell you what our advice to the government was because it might be controversial. Essentially, that’s the response from the Australian Electoral Commission to a Freedom of Information request I made earlier this year, writes Peter Browne, editor of Australian Policy Online.
