A man has been charged after a Liberal Party volunteer was stabbed with a corkscrew in former prime minister Tony Abbott's seat of Warringah on Friday night.

A number of volunteers were putting up campaign posters outside Balgowlah Heights Public School about 8:00pm when a man began yelling abuse at them, police said.

"He allegedly threatened an 18-year-old man before he thrust a corkscrew at the stomach of a 31-year-old man causing a minor injury," NSW police said in a statement.

"He then started ripping down the banners that had been erected, before fleeing the scene."

Labor has accused the Liberal Party of deliberately using the official colours of the Australian Electoral Commission to mislead Chinese-speaking voters in a marginal seat, despite the AEC stating the posters are within the laws.

The posters, which were written in Mandarin and have appeared at booths in the Melbourne seat of Chisholm, state the "correct" way to vote is to preference the Liberal candidate first.

One poster seen by the ABC at the Burwood East Primary School polling booth was printed in the purple and white colours of the AEC and tied to a fence next to an official AEC voting banner.

The text of the poster appears to be written in the style of an official instruction to voters:

Quote:


Australian Labor Party state secretary Kosmos Samaras has confirmed to the ABC that the party lodged a formal complaint with the AEC.

Where do you live Smiffy?

Shortly after 10am today officers from Bankstown public area command were called to a polling booth on Restwell Street in Bankstown.

Officers were informed that a 62-year-old man had been involved in a dispute with several other people.

Police will allege that the man then committed an offensive act in front of at least three women and one man.

Police issued the man an infringement notice for offensive conduct and a move on direction.

John Smith wrote on May 18^th, 2019 at 1:46pm:


I thought it sounded just like you, you deviant!

by Ben Smee

Fake how-to-vote cards are being distributed at polling booths in Dickson, advising minor party voters to place the under-threat home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, ahead of his Labor challenger, Ali France.

The “Vote for Queensland” cards are authorised by a local, whose home in the suburb of Petrie has a Peter Dutton sign in the front yard.

The material purports to tell minor party and independent voters how to support their candidate. In each case, it suggests Greens, Animal Justice party, United Australia, One Nation and independent voters should direct preferences to Dutton.

The Greens’ official how-to-vote cards direct preferences to France. Those preferences will likely be critical to the final two-candidate-preferred result.

Immature behavior by Libs and Labs, just as expected