By Craig Kelly
Remember the AEC’s so-called “Font Size Case” (Australian Electoral Commission v Kelly [2023] FCA 854), which was nothing short of a taxpayer-funded hit job?
These bureaucrats abused their power and engaged in a vindictive, malicious prosecution by dragging me into the Federal Court over the font size of an authorisation statement, which correctly read: “Authorised by Craig Kelly”, on the bottom of just ten election posters.
Yes, a three-day Federal Court hearing over nothing more than font size, for an authorisation that was correctly worded and did not sway a single vote.
Sitting in that courtroom felt exactly like an old Soviet show trial, where a corrupt regime used the courts to punish and silence its political opponents.
To be clear, the law does not prescribe any specific font size for the authorisation statement. It simply requires that the authorisation statement “must be legible at a distance from which the sign can be viewed”.
It is also worth noting that they had no fewer than five barristers in the courtroom trying to get me.
However, the AEC was smashed in court. I had done my homework.
I called an expert witness, an optometrist, who testified that the font size I used was perfectly legible from 2.5 metres for a person with good eyesight. Without question, “a distance” from which these signs could be viewed was within 2.5 metres.
The judge did not mince words. The AEC’s conduct towards me was “unjustifiable and unreasonable”.
Now, the final FOI documents reveal the true cost of their malicious vendetta. The AEC forced taxpayers to fork out $250,000 to pay the lawyers who represented me, on top of the $254,444.73 they spent on their own external lawyers.
That is a staggering half a million dollars ($504,444) wasted on a petty font-size prosecution that should never have seen the inside of a courtroom.
Half a million dollars over the font size of an authorisation statement on ten election posters.
And that does not even include the AEC’s internal costs, the expense of running the court, or the weeks of my own time wasted preparing a defence, meeting with lawyers, and attending the trial.
No wonder Australia’s productivity is sliding backwards when unaccountable public servants treat taxpayers’ money like a personal slush fund for political score-settling.
And I know exactly why they came after me on such a frivolous matter.
I had publicly called out the AEC as human rights abusers for coercion and discrimination by threatening their own employees with dismissal unless they submitted to the experimental COVID mRNA injections. The AEC also refused to employ anyone for the 2022 election unless they had been injected at least twice.
That is what triggered this spiteful, vexatious prosecution.
The AEC was more than happy to gamble half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money, hoping they would get a complicit judge, bankrupt me with court costs, and slap me with a heavy fine, all to ensure I could never run for Parliament again.
Yet not a single person at the AEC has been sacked, disciplined, or even publicly rebuked for this disgraceful abuse of power.
Why has no one at the AEC lost their job over this obscene waste of public money?
They did not care about the law. They cared about revenge and making an example of anyone who dares criticise their authoritarian behaviour.
These people are not public servants. They are vindictive, unaccountable political operatives who treat taxpayers’ wallets as their personal fund for payback.
And look at the footer on the AEC’s emails: “Delivering democracy. 40 years of electoral integrity.”
What a joke.
This is the same AEC that separately dragged me into the Federal Court at 8 pm on the Friday night before the May 2022 election, seeking a court order that would have prevented me, the leader of a political party with candidates running in 150 seats, from campaigning on election day.
Had the AEC succeeded, I risked being found in contempt of court and facing a jail sentence simply for campaigning on election day.
This is the type of thing you would expect in a corrupt nation run by a military junta, but it is Australia today.
This pattern of behaviour reveals a deeper rot, not only within the AEC, but throughout Australia’s entire bureaucracy.
An ABC prepared to fraudulently add gunshots to a video in an attempt to stitch up an SAS soldier.
A Bureau of Meteorology prepared to cook the climate data.
A TGA prepared to grant approval to novel experimental medical products.
It is time for heads to roll at the AEC. This level of reckless, malicious incompetence cannot go unpunished.
May God have mercy on their souls should I ever return to Federal Parliament, where I can finally hold them to account.
- Craig Kelly is a former Liberal politician and member for Hughes, NSW. He left the Liberals, joined United Australia Party and now is a member of the Libertarian Party
Because they are not true Australians, you have to be born and raised by one to have any idea of what it really meant to be an Aussie. Or a child of the sixties like Kelly when everyone was in their hearts and minds at least.
I remember very clearly that that during the 2022 federal election when prior polling had shown that voters were over the major parties and going to vote for independents that the AEC put blank boxes where the independent candidates names should have been.
When voters complained about it they were told that it was a mistake and to just ignore it.
So certain independents lost out.
I’m surprised there wasn’t more of a stink about it coz it was blatant vote rigging.
Meanwhile they concocted a new party that they pretended to be independents called the Teals.
All women, all the same colour, all woke Feminazis and all climate change cooks backed by the billionaire politico Simon Holmes a Court.
I call them the Gucci Greens. Now they’re dropping the charade and actually talking about “becoming a party” – as though they weren’t already.
It was a huge electoral scam on the Australian people that had many players and moving parts.
But the shenanigans pulled by the political big wigs to pull off a labour win was quite a feat.
This was straight after the Liberals had abused the population with the Covid Tyranny under that hypocrite Scott Morrison but in cahoots with the vilest of Labour premiers they were all on the nose.
After watching this feat to save their sorry @rses after what they all did to the Australian people is the best evidence that the conspiracy theorists aren’t mad – they’re just a lot smarter than everyone else….
Because yet again they turn out to be 100% correct.
Well Done Craig. Your Ethics are In . FIRE ALL THE LIERS, There Ethics are SO FAR OUT There So Dumb , there doing them selves IN every minute . Outflow = Inflow .
Craig, sadly the whole system worldwide is fraught with conspiracy and actions that drag people down, and all they do is, as you have suggested, waste taxpayers’ money on nothing. Brian Johnston.
UNREGISTERED POLITICAL PARTY
‘The Australian’ 29 March 2025: Simon Holmes-a-Court’s Climate 200 is funding 35 candidates in the Federal Election. The event featured a screening of the documentary, followed by a panel discussion with LOCAL CANDIDATES AND LEADERS, and community networking. Evidence that it is an unregistered political party.
And no doubt also instructing and directing them, this constitutes a common base group factor political party that is unregistered and thus the AEC must take an injunction to prevent them standing candidates until registered as political party
Perth multi-millionaire and TEALS financier Simon Holmes-a-Court paid for and organized an extravagant campaign launch, Climate 200, at the Dendy Cinema at Coorparoo, Brisbane where the Teal candidate ran against Opposition leader Peter Dutton in the seat of Dickson.
Clearly the TEAL candidates in their campaign launch as a national unified community of independents group funded and managed by Holmes-a-Court’s well organized political structure show they are not independents at all but part of a well-organized political party structure, in reality an unregistered political party.
The Australian Electoral Commission took no action when i made a compliant, they did nothing to have a court determine the common base group factor political party that is unregistered.
“Corrupt junta” well you ain’t seen nothing yet, they have 2 years now to strategise against Orange Party, there will be no gutter the ALP filth will not crawl through.
Their collaborators are the blue party who effectively split voluntarily into a Blue + Teals party, because the blue party was not prepared to call out the climate hoax.
Just like Greens and ALP parties team up for socialism, Blue and Teals Party have teamed up to save the Blues the trouble of governing in the post-Covid Climate hoax world.
All the “important” blues keep their seat and they don’t care about the new blues, last on first off. Sometimes it’s better to be in opposition and take it easy, even if you lose your woman leader and her seat to Orange party, it’s still better not to try too hard, just cruise along and get your pension stress-free. They are the “nothing” party now, together with the Teals Party they are the Blue Sky Nothing Party, what a pack of deadbeats, pretending to be relevant.
Craig Kelly was the Blue Party’s best asset but they would rather sell out to Bill Gates and Geneva.
Princess Royal of Thailand died today after being in a coma since getting boostered a few years ago. Shane Warne got all his boosters because he wanted to go to Thailand and he made it there and dropped dead. My father-in-law also dropped dead after getting the injections, dropped dead on the kitchen floor. Obviously I didn’t have any and I told everyone who would listen, not to. Now we have 80% anti-vaxxx and the government still pushing injections for everything as hard as they can. The medicine is better and the prevention is better but as Gates said “This won’t be over until everyone in the world is injected”. Now Gates is lying about his pedo experiences calling them marital infidelities. You’re a pedo Gates and you don’t get to inject 8 billion people with your $20/shot muck. Prince Andrew got smacked around the other day, did not look very happy. Hopefully soon Gates will get a good kicking every time he goes out of his bunker. The public owes him that.
Tom Rogers of the Voice referendum infamy, Y and N will not be counted, tick counts as a yes, x doesn’t count as a no.
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Annual Salary as CEO ~$600,000
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As the buck stops with the C.E.O., maybe the People v the C.E.O. for losses incurred from, “unjustifiable and unreasonable” actions of the Commission may be worth looking into?
Craig Kelly said – “… Why has no one at the AEC lost their job over this obscene waste of public money?”
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Craig, Craig, Craig, you make it sound like they actually GIVE a rat’s arse about “public money”, you make it seem like they could care one little SHIT about OUR money extorted from us with nether our consultation nor consentunder threats of VIOLENCE.
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Of COURSE there’s no consequences for their malfeasance and fraud and treachery and skulduggery, of COURSE there’s no repercussions for WHATEVER they might decide to do in BROAD DAYLIGHT, right out in the open, of COURSE they don’t give a flying pig’s arse what anyone might think about it, because they’re all 100% UNTOUCHABLE and they KNOW IT.
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Because they don’t work for us and they don’t answer to us, they’re a CORPORATE subsidiary of the foreign-owned COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CORPORATION registered in Washington DC with majority shareholders Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street.
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Just like any other CORPORATION, they don’t have to answer to ANYONE beyond their “stakeholders” and their SHAREHOLDERS.
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And guess what, Craig? The Common Folk of Australia, the Useless Eaters all herded and exploited and slaughtered like sheep, are NEITHER.
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And having done your time in the belly of the beast, having rubbed shoulders and dined with the community of sold-out paid-off foreign-owned political paedophiles and baby-eating Luciferians, Craig, you already know all of this. They neither work for us nor answer to us. Deal with it.
Craig, I hope you do run to finish your unfinished work.
Congratulation on your well deserved win
Thank you, Craig Kelly, for your standing tall for conscious community laws and people, and for sharing your experience and viewpoints with the rest of us. Very enlightening re the horrific often hidden & not-so-easily recognized manipulations that are going on.
40 years of electoral treason