The Coalition has run a wave of attack ads against the teal independents. Since January it has spent $137,000 on Facebook ads via its “teals revealed” page. Elsewhere, billboards in key electorates promote its anti-teal campaign website, and ads are also running on YouTube.
Many ads zero in on the teals’ voting record in parliament, and some highlight this News Corp article, headlined “Teals ally with ‘radical, extremist’ Greens”, which cites Parliamentary Library research to claim that seven teal MPs voted with the Greens “between 73 and 81 per cent of the time” over a period of more than two years.
