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Craig Kelly's move to Palmer's United Australia Party shows the need for urgent electoral law reform

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
Craig Kelly's move to Palmer's United Australia Party shows the need for urgent electoral law reformAAP/Lukas Coch

The news that Craig Kelly, MP, serial purveyor of COVID misinformation, is to join Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party in order to fund his damaging ravings on a grander scale, confronts Australian democracy with a dilemma.

How is he to be prevented from adding to the harm he is already doing to the public welfare without...

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