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Brethren leader to face parliamentary inquiry · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian, I'm Clare Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: The Front's afternoon headlines. A drama surrounding the Brethren Christian
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  Speaker 1: Church has just accelerated, with the church's global leader to
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  Speaker 1: appear before an Australian parliamentary inquiry into what church members
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  Speaker 1: got up to in the lead-up to the 2025 federal election.
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  Speaker 1: The parliamentary inquiry into electoral matters has been examining allegations
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  Speaker 1: church members colluded with neo-Nazis to pull aggressive stunts targeting
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Albanese and other MPs during the last election. There
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  Speaker 1: are also allegations Brethren members flew into remote Aboriginal communities
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  Speaker 1: to campaign for conservative candidates. The church has strongly denied
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  Speaker 1: any wrongdoing and says any actions by individual members of
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  Speaker 1: the church had nothing to do with the organisation as
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  Speaker 1: a whole. The committee, chaired by Labor MP Jerome Laxale,
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  Speaker 1: has already called senior church figures and threatened to issue
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  Speaker 1: subpoenas if global leader Bruce Hales and his son Gareth
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  Speaker 1: did not appear to answer questions. Now Bruce Hales says
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  Speaker 1: he will appear, despite having already submitted extensive answers to
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  Speaker 1: the committee's questions in writing. He says he did not
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  Speaker 1: participate in any campaign or ask anyone else to do so.
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  Speaker 1: The Bondi Beach Massacre Royal Commission will hold fresh hearings
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  Speaker 1: into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 15 people at
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  Speaker 1: a Hanukkah event last December 14, but the hearings will
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  Speaker 1: be held behind closed doors. The announcement by Virginia Bell
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  Speaker 1: comes after victims and national security experts demanded the commission
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  Speaker 1: be expanded beyond its concluded hearings. They focused on the
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  Speaker 1: lived experience of antisemitism in our community, but didn't explicitly
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  Speaker 1: target hate preachers or the proponents of antisemitism. The new
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  Speaker 1: hearing will look at the terrorism threat level and security
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  Speaker 1: environment and how intelligence and law enforcement agencies conducted themselves
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  Speaker 1: and what intelligence was known about the alleged attackers. Check
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  Speaker 1: out those stories live right now at theaustralian.com.au and come
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  Speaker 1: investment flooding into Australia. That's right here Tuesday morning.