A Government MP Has Been Caught Attending An Anti-Islam Party Meeting
Conservative MPs are courting the Australian Liberty Alliance, which denigrates “homosexual relationships” and calls for the government to ban Muslim immigration for the next 10 years.
A photo of government MP Andrew Laming was forwarded to BuzzFeed News last night, quietly sitting at the back of an Australian Liberty Alliance meeting in Queensland.
Laming, who is the Liberal National party member for the local seat of Bowman, was listening to a presentation of the ALA, which is a new political party that exists to spread a populist anti-Islam message.
The ALA president Bernard Gaynor confirmed to BuzzFeed News that Laming was at the meeting and he was hopeful that he was there to join their cause. For his part, Gaynor claims that several federal Liberal MPs have attended meetings, but refused to name names.
Laming said he was there to clear up misconceptions and errors in the Liberty Alliance's presentation to his local constituents.
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"I waited at the door and spoke to constituents and spoke to 37 of them. I don't support or oppose them. But their presentation centered on very populist topics and there were a number of factual errors in the presentation," said Laming.