‘Misleading and offensive’: Allegra Spender denounces unauthorised pamphlet as AEC launches investigation

‘This sort of smear campaign is what turns people off politics. And that’s what we’ve got to stop doing,’ Allegra Spender said of the anonymous and unauthorised pamphlets. Photograph: Supplied

Allegra Spender has denounced “anonymous and misleading” pamphlets that the Australian Electoral Commission says had been distributed in her electorate of Wentworth without authorisation.

At a press conference on Monday afternoon, the independent member for the eastern Sydney seat welcomed an announcement by the AEC that it would be investigating the election material.