Pretty funny story. Not that I care personally, seeing its legal.
Liberal party candidate resigns over revelations he owns a brothel
Party left without a candidate in Melbourne seat of Calwell after John Hsu quits campaign and resigns membership
The Victorian Liberal state director, Simon Frost, said the party had only learned about John Hsu’s ownership of the brothel from news reports. Photograph: Alan Porritt/AAP Joshua Robertson
The Liberal party has been left without a challenger in the Melbourne seat of Calwell after its candidate quit over revelations he owned a brothel but did not tell the party.
The Victorian Liberal state director, Simon Frost, said the party had only learned about Hsu’s ownership of the brothel from the news report.
Hsu had “not fully declared his business interests prior to applying for endorsement as required under the party’s rules”, Frost said.
He had “resigned, with immediate effect, as an endorsed candidate of the Liberal party and … as a member of the party”.
The Liberal party will not be running an endorsed candidate in Calwell because the deadlines for nominations with the Australian electoral commission have already passed.
