The Equality Campaign has reported the robo-call to the Australian Electoral Commission. The Australian Market and Social Research Society has said the robo-poll “appears to be ‘push polling’ – an activity that attempts to impart information to individuals rather than collect information from individuals”. The campaign director of the Equality Campaign, Tim Gartrell, said it had “taken the step of intervening because we believe, like AMSRS, this is push polling”. “It fits the pattern of the no case, their advertising is 100% negative and they are clearly push polling. “Asking biased or misleading questions isn’t necessarily push polling, especially in a small sample and we don’t know how many have been exposed to this message,” Briggs said.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2017 18:00 UTC