BUY LOCAL SCANDAL: SIGNS PRINTED IN CHINA AND QLD
But party insists it backs locals
THE Country Liberal Party has used an interstate printer to produce campaign material.
Signs advertising CLP candidate for Solomon Kathy Ganley bear an authorisation showing they were printed by Queensland company Extreme Marquees.
But a party spokesman said the vast majority of campaign materials were printed locally and tried to turn attention back to Labor.
“More than 95 per cent of all CLP signage is sourced from local businesses and the CLP as the only political party that fights for Territory businesses will continue to support local businesses whenever possible,” the spokesman said.
“Contrast this with the hopeless Gunner Labor Government wasting millions of Territorian dollars interstate to acquire dumb slogans, not to mention many other purchases — whether they be services or products — that could and should have been bought locally.” The CLP isn’t the only party guilty of using companies from outside the NT to produce campaign materials.
Clive Palmer came under fire after it was revealed his United Australia Party campaign shirts and corflutes were manufactured overseas, despite the minority party running on a platform of building jobs in Australia.
Corflutes for the party’s Solomon candidate Raj Rajwin were also printed in China on one side, but the inverse bearing his image was produced locally.
A UAP spokesman said the party had spent 98.5 per cent of its printing budget in Australia and 1.5 per cent in China.
“Time frames also meant printing of corflutes needed to be done overseas,” the spokesman said.
Former Home And Away actor Bryan Wiseman, who was running for UAP against Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the seat of Cook, quit the party last month after he found out the shirts were made in China.
Details on one corflute read: “Printed by Dongguan Jianxin Plastic Products Co Ltd. 94 Qingfeng East Road, Shijien, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China.”