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0 pointsvacri13y ago0 comments

Where are you getting only 3 days from? It's definitely not 3 days from experience. Either that, or every funded political party is breaking the law.

EDIT: rereading your link, it looks like it's 33 days at the local council level, but at the federal level it's 'when the election date is called', which works out to being a similar thing (as it's usually a similar amount of time): the years between elections are free of electioneering.

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jacques_chester13y ago· 2 in thread

1. Definitions:

"relevant period" , in relation to an election, means the period that commences at the end of the Wednesday before the polling day for the election and ends at the close of the poll on that polling day.

3A (2), (3) and (4) all include this language:

the broadcaster must not broadcast under the licence an election advertisement in relation to the election during the relevant period.

They vary only to cover different sorts of broadcasters.

vacriOP13y ago

You seem to be ignoring the very important word "not". What you're quoting is the exact opposite of what you think you're quoting - the broadcaster must NOT broadcast an election ad during that 3-day period.

jacques_chester13y ago

I'm not sure what you're driving at.

I quoted it to show that the blackout period is created by the "must not broadcast" phrases. So ... you're agreeing with me? I'm confused.

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