August 21, 2026 — 5:08pm

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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has described revelations that a secretive Christian sect had paid far-right agitators to disrupt the 2025 election campaign as “a fundamental change to our democracy”.

But the sect behind the campaign, the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, stonewalled queries about the intervention when questioned before a parliamentary committee investigating the election.

Church spokesman Lloyd Grimshaw said it was “bizarre” that they had been called to give evidence, and criticised the story…

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