Contracts that commit UAP candidates to reimbursing advertising budget designed to avoid repeat of the ‘Jacqui Lambie problem’
Clive Palmer’s United Australia party has taken extraordinary steps to avoid a repeat of the “Jacqui Lambie problem” by getting candidates to sign contracts that require them to return $400,000 in election support if they win a seat but subsequently leave the party.
Jacqui Lambie won a Tasmanian Senate seat as a candidate for Palmer United party in 2013, but after a year resigned and set up the Jacqui Lambie Network. The former rugby league star Glenn Lazarus was also elected to the Senate as a Palmer United party candidate in 2013. He quit the party in 2015 over differences with Palmer and started the Glenn Lazarus Team party.
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