‘You Won’t Be Able to Book Any Billboards in Australia’: Agency Tells Beijing Critic and Human Rights Advocate

People walk past an advertising billboard along a street in Sydney, Australia on July 21, 2020. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images

Advertising critical of China or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could be barred from running on any billboards in Australia, according to a recording by Senate candidate and student-activist Drew Pavlou.

In a recording posted on Pavlou’s Twitter account, an advertising representative explained why his billboard company was turning down an AU$3,000 (US$2,152) campaign—featuring the works of dissident artist Badiucao, who is critical of the Beijing Winter Olympics.