The ACT Greens say blog posts written by a 20-year-old candidate, which included comparing Osama bin Laden with Jesus Christ, are "creative writing" and do not reflect her personal views, but acknowledged a failure in candidate vetting.
Harini Rangarajan, who is running in Murrumbidgee, undertook "a creative writing exercise to explore the absurdity of dying for ideologies. This piece is not reflective of Ms Rangarajan's personal views, it is fiction", the party said.
