When Australia’s prime minister walked into a Brisbane hotel lobby last year for a press conference, a far-right influencer was already lying in wait.

Anthony Albanese would later recall how Laurence McIntyre, who has been linked to known neo-Nazis, pushed past the assembled journalists, “yelling out all sorts of aggressive” statements about immigration.

At first it appeared to be a symptom of modern politics: one of many activists who spontaneously confronted the Labor prime minister and other politicians as they campaigned during last year’s election.

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