One Nation's new Victorian leader promoted '15-minute city' conspiracy theory
The new state One Nation leader warned of a debunked "globalist" plot to control Australians.
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One Nation's new Victorian leader has promoted a conspiracy theory that the "15-minute city" urban planning model is part of a sinister effort to control how Australians live and move.
Warren Pickering, who has been tapped by Pauline Hanson to head the party's state team, once warned Victorians the "noose is tightening" around every aspect of their lives under a plot led by "unelected globalist bureaucrats" to restrict city movement.
Mr Pickering was this week announced as One Nation's candidate in the seat of Pakenham for the November state election but was the party's Victorian state president when he made the claims about the widely debunked conspiracy theory in Facebook post shared in September 2024.
In the previously unreported comments, Mr Pickering argued the construction of big public transport hubs and high-rise apartment buildings in Melbourne's "sleepy suburbs" were part of a government conspiracy to "control all aspects of your life".
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