One of the Voice to Parliament No campaigns is promoting a video from an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who rose to fame as part of the freedom movement.
The Warren Mundine-led Recognise A Better Way campaign website includes a list of video and audio content endorsing its opposition to the Voice.
The latest video is a YouTube clip from Turning Point Australia’s Joel Jammal warning of the “dangers of the Voice”.
Jammal, wearing a hat that reads “Team Cook”, tells viewers to watch a clip from right-wing New Zealand politician Winston Peters who criticises the Voice.
Jammal has been the face of the far-right organisation that’s been involved in the Australian tours of former UKIP leader and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, and Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, whose controversial anti-trans rally in Melbourne last month was attended by a group of neo-Nazis.
Jammal’s own beliefs in conspiracy theories and far-right fearmongering are laid out in his extensive online history, as Crikey has previously reported.
Jammal describes himself as a Christian journalist and conservative political commentator. After unsuccessfully trying to usurp Fred Nile as head of the Christian Democratic Party as a 22-year-old in 2019, Jammal launched an online interview series with one of Australia’s most extreme conspiracy theorists, Riccardo Bosi.
During these interviews with Bosi, where he laid out his violent fantasies of Australian political leaders, doctors and journalists being executed for their role in COVID-19 restrictions, Jammal also shared his own fringe and extreme beliefs. He is against vaccines, denies human-made climate change and has cast doubt on the Port Arthur massacre.
Crikey has previously reported on the appointment to the Recognise A Better Way board of Yodie Batzke, an anti-abortion former UAP candidate who has been repeatedly caught out promoting false information during prior election campaigns.
Neither Jammal nor the Recognise A Better Way campaign responded to a request for comment.
