Popular podcaster and social media influencer Abbie Chatfield has been cleared by the Australian Electoral Commission of breaching electoral laws.
Several posts of Ms Chatfield's interviews with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and a gig with Greens leader Adam Bandt were reviewed, with the content in February and March deemed to pass muster.
"The AEC found that this communication does not require an authorisation statement," a commission spokesperson told AAP on Thursday.
"There is no evidence that there was a monetary benefit for the podcaster as a result of either Mr Albanese or Mr Bandt being invited onto the show."
Ms Chatfield is one of Australia's most prominent influencers with over half a million followers on her platforms.
Influencers have risen to prominence this election cycle with Mr Albanese and coalition leader Peter Dutton both appearing more frequently on podcasts, mirroring campaign tactics employed in the US by Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
"Questions put to both interviewees were sourced from the podcast's audience. There is no evidence that either Mr Albanese or Mr Bandt had creative control in relation to the questions that were asked," the commission added.
It also reminded the crowded field of content creators engaging in politics online that "if in doubt, authorise."
Liberal senator Jane Hume had quizzed acting electoral commissioner Jeff Pope in a budget estimates hearing about whether the posts had breached the Electoral Act by endorsing specific politicians.
"We'd have to look and see whether content was being produced, of their own volition, by the person who is the influencer or whether others were buying or potentially using that as advertising and promotional content," Mr Pope said earlier in March.
The prime minister appeared with the influencer in February in a 90-minute sit-down as part of his electoral bid to reach younger audiences, while Mr Bandt tried to appeal to voters by moonlighting as a DJ in a Melbourne event dubbed VOTE.
Ms Chatfield, the host of the 'It's a Lot' podcast, posted a clip of the budget estimates exchange on her Instagram account.
"It's so funny that the Liberal Party can't comprehend that maybe young people, aka influencers, just f***ing hate the Liberal Party," she said.
"There's a moral panic about influencers in politics ... this idea that influencers can't be trusted with something as serious or highbrow as politics."
