Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to table a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters inquiry into the 2025 election.

Leave not granted.

This continues the ongoing efforts of the Albanese government to confront the brutal realities of what happened in the Goldstein electorate over the past two election cycles. A submission was made to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters and has twice been declined, and now it has been declined in the House of Representatives. What does it tell? It tells a very truthful story about what has actually happened in Goldstein. While it was a robust electoral contest in previous elections, nothing had been seen like it until the 2022 and 2025 election, where we had teal front groups that have been created for the sole purpose of endorsing candidates on the basis that they're apparently independent.

One of the things that they don't want to show is the Instagram page of the Voices of Goldstein, which hasn't posted since May 2022. The so-called community based organisation just dissipates the minute it achieves its objective, which is getting a teal elected into the parliament. The Voices of Goldstein group had deeply unsavoury figures attached to it, including people who told other people to shut up and compared prime ministers of this country serving their nation to Adolf Hitler. This is not my opinion—this is literally what has come out from their own content and behaviour.

We've also seen campaigners engaging such prolific behaviour that the candidates have had to apologise for their despicable behaviour, and we've got deep dishonesty where supporters of candidates claim they have no association and no attachment to the candidate—and the candidate denies their involvement—yet their own spouse produces things on Facebook saying that that is not in fact correct. They were attached to the campaign. We've seen evidence where there have been deliberate online hit squads that have been used to target other candidates and boost the teal candidate in the context of their Wikipedia pages, something that's been extensively covered in the Australian.

We've also seen evidence where teal campaigners deliberately vandalised a candidate's home. In this case, I need to acknowledge it was my home and with actual photographic evidence of them actually doing that, including putting content on my own private fence without my permission. There are also ongoing issues around security, where candidates have found themselves in a situation of intimidation, having to get upgrades of security at their private residence, as well as the AFP involved, for protection in the 2022 election, and there's the ongoing targeting by certain teal strategists towards Jewish community representatives.

This is one that I think is particularly despicable. Following the 2022 election, when I was no longer a member in this House, the teal campaigners organised, when I was on holiday, to have campaign material put up around the holiday home I was staying in so that they could continue to rub in the face—the obsession and the nastiness of the teal movement is truly something to behold. There's photographic evidence, again, but the government doesn't want that going into the parliamentary record.

Then there's the overt homophobic content that was produced and has even been studied by the Australian National University, including hard evidence from social media posts. They don't want that in the parliamentary record either. They don't want evidence of teals being directly caught teal handed engaging in theft, including of private property. They don't want included content produced by groups like the Smart Energy Council, who claim that they are somehow an independent organisation but actively continue to be involved in misleading the community. We also have groups like the so-called Hothouse Magazine that are involved in illegally vandalising public property across the Goldstein electorate—and I understand they did in places like Flinders and elsewhere. Then, of course, we have Dan Ilic. We all know Dan Ilic, the 'comedian' who was actively involved not just in launching the teal campaign in 2025; he also authorised content which vandalised other people's campaign material as well.

We have teal groups claiming: 'Oh, it's terrible. No-one was participating in the campaign or content or campaign debates where they were supposed to be independent'—except for the fact that the evidence shows that they were all organised by the candidate, including specifically listing the donors from their campaign webpage.

Finally, there's the involvement of the Australian Labor Party, including the member for Isaacs, Mark Dreyfus—

Andrew Leigh (Fenner, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Props!

Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

who was involved in campaign material for the teals. (Time expired)

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I remind the member for Goldstein not to be holding up documents when he's giving addresses at the dispatch box.