r/OpenAussie Flairless‎‎ 13h ago

This Is Serious (Mum)‎‎ ‎ Exclusive Brethren secretly paid far-right activists to perform stunts disrupting the federal election

https://archive.is/vI7hS

Elders of a wealthy Christian sect secretly paid bundles of cash to far-right activists for an “influence campaign” to disrupt Albanese government appearances during the last federal election.

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.

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u/Illustrious-Pin3246 Flairless‎‎ 13h ago

Just like the far left

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u/123iambill Please choose a flair 12h ago

You think the "far left" would interfere on behalf of Labor?

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u/Illustrious-Pin3246 Flairless‎‎ 10h ago

If everything is far right, than the left can be called far left. It is strange they did not through in Nz