Election Ad Ban: relic of a past age
29 June 2016 · News
"The advertising ban is really a relic of an earlier age, before the internet, when we got our information from the television and radio."
University of Adelaide politics professor Clem Macintyre has...
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Tags: Advertising blackout | Federal Election
100% spot on, an example of legislation that is not on pace with the rest of the real world. Of course in Queensland their is no blackout for Local Government council elections so adverting is on the radio up to and including the day. The audience manage to cope.