42. If there are limits on the amount a candidate can spend, what is the limit?

No candidate may spend more than $10,000 during, or 6 months before or after, any election campaign. The definition of campaign expendiure  includes the cost of entertaining (including food and drink) and the cost of transporting people to a polling station. 

Source: Section 24: Permitted Election Expenses, Electoral Act 1989.

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