One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts again fails to rule out Bondi beach terror attack being ‘false flag’

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts has caused further confusion in comments about the Bondi beach antisemitic terror attack , clarifying that he thought it was an “absurd proposition” to call the shooting a “false flag” but standing by his claim that he didn’t have “data” to rule it out. Roberts, Pauline Hanson’s fellow senator from Queensland, was interviewed on a YouTube channel, with the clip posted earlier this month. At one point in the 23-minute clip, social media creator Lisa Jane Spencer asked “do you think that Bondi was a false flag?” A “false flag” is a term for an event or attack which would later be blamed on someone other than the actual perpetrator. The term originated in military operations, but is also commonly used by conspiracy theorists to claim governments stage false events to create favourable circumstances for actions which would otherwise be unpopular. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email Roberts first responded “we haven’t had the royal commission”, before criticising prime minister Anthony Albanese’s initial opposition to holding such an inquiry, going on to claim Labor had tolerated antisemitism and “given fertile ground for Islamic terrorists”. “So, what was the question? Oh that’s right, false flag. I haven’t got the evidence. I doubt whether it was a false flag,” Roberts said. …