CAIRNS Labor candidate Kirsten Lesina has been accused of hypocrisy for her volume of posted campaign signs after calling for a limit to be set during her term on council.
Ms Lesina, the former Division 4 councillor for Cairns Regional
Council, put forward a motion last September requesting that a limit of 100
signs per candidate be imposed during a state election campaign.
The proposal was defeated by the majority of her former colleagues
on the basis that it would be impractical to monitor and enforce the rule and
that it could potentially threaten free speech.
Ms Lesina estimated she had about 110 signs posted throughout the
city at any one time, noting that about 70 had been torn down."It just highlights the hypocrisy of it," Katter’s Australian
Party Cairns rival Darren Hunt said, adding he has about 150 signs erected
across the city.
LNP Cairns candidate Gavin King said many of Ms Lesina’s signs
were spaced a short distance apart along Sheridan St. and it was "overkill".
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