{"id":862809,"date":"2026-08-21T04:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862809\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T04:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:46:12","slug":"australia-news-live-afp-charges-dual-national-who-fought-with-ukraine-as-alleged-russian-informant-woman-at-centre-of-sydney-swans-allegation-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862809\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: AFP charges dual national who fought with Ukraine as alleged Russian informant; Woman at centre of Sydney Swans allegation breaks silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberal Party has now taken over the questioning of Lloyd Grimshaw of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, under the member for Forrest, Ben Small. Small had a very large contingent of church members bussed into his electorate to campaign on his behalf, according to submissions to the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Small gives Grimshaw the opportunity to argue it was church members who were the real victims here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two posters, authorised by Freedom Party founder Morgan C. Jonas, linked to the Brethren during the 2025 election.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/40bf433affe51d19ec8747b1aed91ffd0c5c6f3f.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Two posters, authorised by Freedom Party founder Morgan C. Jonas, linked to the Brethren during the 2025 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get abusive emails sent to the church via the \u2018contact us\u2019 form on the website, and we\u2019ve even had you know households, family households of Brethren members getting door knocks at night with people knocking on their front doors, and when they open the door, they ask them, \u2018You know, are you part of a cult?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty common following media articles in this country that get written from time to time with outrageous stuff about the church.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Small is now inviting Grimshaw to attack the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who described the church as a \u201ccult\u201d during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s appropriate at all,\u201d Grimshaw says. \u201cTo use the words that he used to describe the church is offensive, and it\u2019s hurtful, and it\u2019s untrue, and you know it has an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liberal Party has now taken over the questioning of Lloyd Grimshaw of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-862809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}