Former One Nation senator, current Great Australian Party Leader and self-styled ‘senator in exile' Rod Culleton has vowed to fight charges that he knowingly provided false or misleading information to a Commonwealth entity.
The basis of the allegations
The charges arise from allegations that Mr Culleton made a false declaration to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) in his nomination for the 2021 federal election that he was not an undischarged bankrupt, when a Bankruptcy Register Search on the National Personal Insolvency Index shows that he is one.
On 22 April 2022, the AEC released a public statement advising that it had “referred this matter to the Australian Federal Police for their consideration”.
