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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee

LNP blocks Gerard Rennick recruits as party seeks to ‘keep out the cookers’

LNP Senator Gerard Rennick and former Liberal Democrats candidate Diane Demetre, who was rejected for LNP membership last year.
LNP senator Gerard Rennick with Diane Demetre, whose application for party membership was rejected last year. Photograph: Diane Demetre Facebook page

Diane Demetre gained some notoriety as an author of a series of erotic fiction novels and a couple of murder mysteries. But her most recent writings strike a very different tone.

Demetre, who ran for the Liberal Democrats at the 2022 federal election, claims in social media posts that Covid is a “behavioural conditioning experiment” and warns about “the totalitarian rule of a group of globalists who want to play god”.

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