New Nationals candidate rejects dirty tricks, Nats junk fake websites, yet John Barilaro defiant

Three days after Michael West Media revealed that the NSW Nationals had registered websites in the names of their byelection opponents, the websites have been taken down.

Nationals’ candidate David Layzell was not aware that head office of the NSW Nationals had registered domain names in the names of a number of his key opponents, including Labor’s Jeff Drayton and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers’ Sue Gilroy.

The Nationals registered the domain names http://jeffdrayton.com.au/,  http://jeffdrayton.com/,  http://www.suegilroy.com/  and  http://www.suegilroy.com.au/, with websites are authorised by Joe Lundy, the NSW state director of the NSW Nationals.

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