Stat Of The Moment: Election Spending

And now for something completely different...

This comes from an article detailing the amount of money spent on television advertising by the various parties during this election campaign. Hidden among the "...millions of dollars" spent and "...thousands of advertisements" screened by the major parties comes this pure-gold statistic:

"the Communist Alliance recorded the most modest spend, airing one advertisement, just once, for an estimated outlay of $76"