Canberra Liberals leader Jeremy Hanson has refused to comment on his party's deepening woes following allegations party bosses did not declare hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to electoral authorities.
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The ACT Opposition Leader refused to take questions on Tuesday after Fairfax Media revealed claims party bosses had failed to report up to $436,000 in debt, in breach of the territory's financial disclosure laws.
Mr Hanson, who as parliamentary leader sits on the ACT Liberals' management committee, would not comment on the growing crisis because it was ''a party matter''.
The division's former president Tio Faulkner, who signed off on annual return documents submitted to electoral authorities, also refused further questions from Fairfax Media on Tuesday. ''As I am no longer president of the party, I will no longer be commenting on Liberal Party issues,'' Mr Faulkner wrote in a text.
Mr Faulkner stepped down as the party's boss at its annual general meeting last Wednesday and has been replaced by the division's former finance director Peter Collins.
The territory's electoral commissioner Phil Green said on Tuesday he would be looking closely at allegations the Liberals did not disclose the extent of their debt when the commission begins its routine audit of the major parties at the end of this month.
The allegations follow months of internal feuding in the party, which now has a dissident ''Menzies'' faction that is claiming up to half of the division's membership.
The party's youth arms - the Young Liberals and its student wing at ANU - have also splintered into four factions.
Elections ACT has received two complaints that the Canberra Liberal's annual return did not include up to $436,000 owed to creditors.
The party's original 2012-13 annual return to the commission, as well as an amended return submitted last month, reported $47,161 in debt - a fraction of the division's financial liabilities.