Andrew Laming has been slapped with a $20,000 effective for, amongst different issues, posting approvingly on his personal social media exercise. It is from the primary time.
Ah, that Andrew Laming. This week the famous empath and former LNP MP obtained a complete of $20,000 in fines for a sequence of Fb posts within the lead-up to the 2019 election. A single submit, by which he commented favourably on his personal work whereas pretending to be one other particular person, made up half of the effective.
It was the conclusion of the case introduced by the Australian Electoral Fee over the Fb web page “Redland Hospital: Lets (sic) combat for honest funding”, which Laming administrated however didn’t correctly authorise. Justice Darryl Rangiah discovered Laming contravened electoral legislation thrice between December 2018 and Could 2019 by failing to correctly determine himself and his metropolis within the posts. Most severe in Rangiah’s view was the next, posted by Laming underneath a special title:
… we had been delighted when Andrew Laming introduced an $83 million funding increase to our native hospital service within the newest monetary 12 months (17/18). Properly let’s FACT CHECK. Seems he wasn’t completely right. Considered one of our spies discovered Queensland Nationwide Well being Reform Funding — and it tells a special story. We are able to’t reproduce it, however the statewide desk exhibits that certainly 7.8% of the 2017/18 cash was from earlier years. So Laming is 92.2% correct if state information displays Redlands and he boosted funding by $77 million.
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