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Exclusive Brethren secretly paid far-right activists to perform stunts disrupting the federal election

https://archive.md/Yc7Ac

“An investigation by this masthead has uncovered a digital trail of evidence revealing how the church, formerly known as the Exclusive Brethren, mobilised far-right figures around the country to track and heckle candidates from Labor and the Greens, along with independents, as part of a wider multimillion-dollar campaign for then-Liberal leader Peter Dutton”

Exclusive Brethren secretly paid far-right activists to perform stunts disrupting the federal electionhttps://www.watoday.com.au/national/exclusive-brethren-secretly-paid-far-right-activists-to-perform-stunts-disrupting-the-federal-election-20260812-p60nma.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.wtf
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world·World NewsbySuffa

Pakistani man living in Australia describes ‘nightmare’ of wrongly being labelled as Bondi attacker

Many of the accounts that were sharing his image falsely were from India, as right-wing influencers seized on the alleged origin of the shooter as proof of Pakistan’s terror connections, without fact-checking whether it was the correct man they were vilifying.

Pakistani man living in Australia describes ‘nightmare’ of wrongly being labelled as Bondi attackerhttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/15/pakistani-man-living-in-australia-describes-nightmare-of-being-labelled-as-bondi-attackerOpen linkView original on lemmy.wtf
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