Clive Palmer's United Australia Party is printing election corflutes in China, according to images posted to Twitter, despite his electioneering on a manufacture in Australia policy.
The photos show a UAP sign marked as being printed by Dongguan Jianxin Plastic Products, a company based in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China.
The party is campaigning on bringing jobs back to Australia, with Palmer's "Vision for Australia" document saying the country needs "a real manufacturing industry in areas where we have the economic advantage, rather than exporting jobs to China and Japan".
"The Australian Government must support Australian industries and ensure all policies put Australia first," he wrote.
Printing Industries slammed the UAP in response to the news.
https://twitter.com/PrintIndAUS/status/1120852038823202818
This is not the first controversy involving the UAP and offshore manufacturing, with its candidate for PM Scott Morrison's seat of Cook, Bryan Wiseman, quitting the party in March after discovering its shirts and caps were also printed in China.
"The party's entire platform is about creating jobs in Australia and the guy couldn't even pay Australian workers to make his clothing," Wiseman told The Daily Telegraph following his resignation.
The United Australia Party was contacted for comment.