‘Not our friends’: Victorian Coalition warns Advance’s ‘bizarre’ AI campaign may cost it majority government

The Victorian Liberal leader, Jess Wilson. Coalition MPs have criticised rightwing lobby group Advance’s pre-election campaign and warned it may cost them majority government. Photograph: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

Victorian Coalition MPs have criticised a prominent conservative lobby group’s pre-election campaign as “bizarre” and warned it may cost them a majority government at the November state election.

But the criticism has been dismissed as “galactically stupid” by Advance, which has rebuked the Coalition for not being further ahead in the polls.