Candidates gone before May 18 election day

The major parties have all lost candidates before election day, with past social media posts and citizenship doubts snuffing out possible careers in Canberra.

FEDERAL ELECTION'S FORMER CANDIDATES

GONE

* David Paull (Greens, Parkes). Scandal over re-post of Port Arthur conspiracy theory

* Gurpal Singh (Liberal, Scullin) - backed an alleged rapist and linked same-sex marriage to paedophilia on social media

* Jay Dessi (Greens, Lalor) - racist joke about a friend

* Jessica Whelan (Liberal, Lyons) - anti-Muslim social media comments

* Peter Killin (Liberal, Wills) - writing about dangers of gay people and insulting fellow Liberal Tim Wilson

* Jeremy Hearn (Liberal, Isaacs) - Facebook slur against Muslims

* Murray Angus (Liberal, Corio) - friendly comments about Labor candidate

* Kate Oski (Liberal, Lalor) - citizenship doubts

* Vaishali Ghosh (Liberal, Wills) - citizenship doubts

* Helen Jackson (Liberal, Cooper) - public servant

* Courtney Nguyen (Liberal, Fowler) - citizenship doubts

* Sam Kayal (Liberal, Werriwa) - citizenship doubts

* Tony Pecora (United Australia Party, Melbourne) - conspiracy theory about September 11 terrorist attacks

* James Harker-Mortlock (Nationals, Whitlam) - citizenship doubts

* Steve Dickson (One Nation, Queensland Senate) - strip club scandal

* Wayne Kurnoth (Labor, NT Senate) - offensive social media posts

* Melissa Parke - (Labor, Curtin) - comments on Palestine

* Mary Ross (Labor, NSW Senate) - citizenship doubts

* Luke Creasey (Labor, Melbourne) - vulgar social media comments about women, posted seven years ago

QUESTION MARK

* Rod Culleton (Great Australian Party, WA Senate) - referred to federal police over an alleged false statement denying his bankruptcy

* Ross Macdonald (One Nation, Leichhardt) - racist and sexist social media posts

* Mina Zaki (Liberal, Canberra) - citizenship doubts


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Published 14 May 2019 12:42pm
Source: AAP


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