Labor Announces Truth in Advertising Policy, Greens and Country Parties Signal Opposition

^{BY JAMES JAMESONSON}

LABOR has announced that if elected to form government, it will introduce legislation to make it an offence to lie in political advertisements. However, the move has been condemned by Country party leader u/Gregor_The_Beggar, who has also signalled that the Greens and Sensible Team political parties may oppose such a bill.

Labor leader u/dyljam said that such legislation was necessary given "record numbers" of Australians are expressing dissatisfaction with democracy in Australia.

"In Australia, we don't let businesses get away with lying in advertisements, but we give politicians a free run," he said in a media release.

Country party leader u/Gregor_The_Beggar took to Twitter to vent his anger at the policy, saying such a policy would "silence and censor their political opponents".

He also made references to the George Orwell novel 1984, a reference commonly used by conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers.

"I have spoken to [Sensible Team leader u/TheSensibleCentre], [prime minister u/model-putrid] and [Greens co-leader u/TheTrashMan_10]. All of them have expressed their massive concern for Dangerous Dyljam's political suppression bill...," he said.

However, recently departed Greens co-leader u/model-kyosanto then took to Twitter to say "It is important to see the text of any bill before making assumptions of the goals it would achieve."

Speaking to National Review, Labor leader u/dyljam said that this exchange highlighted the splits emerging in the Greens-Country-Sensible Team coalition.

"Gregor's claims are just straight-up lies. He doesn't want to be held to the same standard that businesses or members of the public are held to. He just thinks he's above the rest of us,"

"This policy is not radical, we already hold businesses to the same standard. What does Gregor and the Greens have to hide?" NR