{"id":1458,"date":"2025-04-30T07:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T07:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:27:30","slug":"liberal-party-escalates-legal-stoush-after-campaign-signs-taken-from-pre-poll-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/liberal-party-escalates-legal-stoush-after-campaign-signs-taken-from-pre-poll-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Party escalates legal stoush after campaign signs taken from pre-poll station"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Liberal Party will take a Melbourne<\/a> council to court<\/a>, after a stoush over campaign signs at a pre-polling booth came to a head this morning.<\/p>\n

Officers from Boroondara Council attended a pre-polling station on High Street in Kew earlier today and removed "non-permitted advertising" displayed by Kooyong Liberal Candidate Amelia Hamer.<\/p>\n

The council had enforced a one-sign per party rule outside the polling station this year, following previous concerns the volume of political advertising was blocking the footpath and posing a safety risk to pedestrians.<\/p>\n

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In a statement, a spokesperson for the Coalition campaign said the Liberal Party was seeking the support of the courts to "stop the Council from acting unlawfully".<\/p>\n

"Four electorates can vote at the Kew early voting location (Kooyong, Melbourne, Chisholm, Menzies), however the Teal-run Council will only "permit" one candidate A-frame, hindering the Liberal candidates for the other three electorates and for the Senate from fairly participating in the democratic process," the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

"It also prevents parties from enfranchising voters who may speak a language other than English."<\/p>\n

"The Teal-run Council's lawyers have already conceded in correspondence that the Commonwealth Constitution over-rides local regulations."<\/p>\n

Boroondara Council's mayor \ufeffSophie Torney unsuccessfully ran as a teal independent candidate for the seat of Kew in the 2022 state election.<\/p>\n

There is no evidence that the council's actions were politically motivated.<\/p>\n

All candidates were informed of the trading permit rules in writing prior to the election, as well as once the election was called, according to Boroondara Council.<\/p>\n

It's understood Hamer was the only candidate not to comply with the restrictions.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, The Liberals threatened legal action if the council did not withdraw the permit requirements and restrictions by 3pm yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Boroondara Council said it will \ufeff"consider all applications for more advertising quickly and on their merits".<\/p>\n

"Council's focus is ensuring public safety, clear pedestrian access, and amenity," a council spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

"We hope candidates understand this focus on public safety, access, and amenity and comply with these requirements."<\/p>\n

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The Liberal Party will take a Melbourne council to court, after a stoush over campaign signs at a pre-polling booth came to a head this morning. Officers from Boroondara Council attended a pre-polling station on High Street in Kew earlier today and removed "non-permitted advertising" displayed by Kooyong Liberal Candidate Amelia Hamer. The council had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}