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March 17, 2022 National Security, News Extremist Riccardo Bosi: followers duped
He runs a fake “political party” with a fake “office” spreading a whole spectrum of fake information ranging from Covid-19 denial to false claims about the workings of Australia’s political system. But the money he’s raising from many of his tens of thousands of followers – money they’re now almost certainly set to lose – is very real. Anthony Klan shines the light on Riccardo Bosi, the pied-piper of Australia’s vulnerable and disillusioned…
ANTHONY KLAN
Far-right conspiracy theorist Riccardo Bosi has failed to register his “political party” despite more than two-and-a-half years of promises, and has now almost certainly run out of time to do so before the Federal Election.
Bosi is one of the most well-known extremist, “right-wing”, conspiracy theorists involved in demonstrations that have been held in parts of Australia, including in Canberra, where Bosi last month gave a bizarre address wearing military regalia.
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The previously little-known firebrand has made national headlines since the Covid-19 outbreak, including over his public calls for the execution of several high-profile Australians and for making outrageously false claims, such as that Covid-19 does not exist.
“The loathsome individuals that run this country…have persuaded too many of us that we have to kill .. .
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our kids,” he told one audience in Tamworth NSW late last year.
“It’s part of the actual injection, so folks, do your own research as usual, work it out for yourself, make your own decision, but this is now getting extremely serious,” Bosi says in the clip.
“If you go in for a blood test, they will test you for AIDS, and you’ll get told.
“The awful truth is beginning to be revealed, so folks, you’ve got to fight back, you’ve got to join the millions marches…in Canberra and around Australia this weekend,” he says.
Bosi (62) and his wife Rhiannon (45), from Stanhope Gardens in Sydney’s outer-west, have been raising “donations” for the “support of the AustraliaOne Party”.
Yet not only does their “party” not exist, the pair have made no attempts to actually register it, it can be revealed.
That’s despite Bosi having been actively spruiking the “party” – which was born out of former Liberal Senator Cori Bernadi’s failed “Australian Conservatives” group – since 2019.
Riccardo Bosi at a “freedom” rally in Canberra last month. Source: Supplied
Bosi has latched on to, and become a central figure in, the so-called “freedom movement”, which in 2020 and 2021 involved large anti-lockdown protests.
Bosi is a former soldier in the Australian Army, where he spent time as a special services soldier.
He left the army almost two decades ago, in 2004.
To become a political party a group needs to file with the Australian Electoral Commission its “constitution” and provide a list of at least 1,500 prospective “members”.
It takes generally takes around 12 weeks between an application being submitted and a party becoming registered, the AEC said.
The process must be completed before the election is called, when the “caretaker” period begins – which experts say must occur six weeks from now at the latest.
Bosi has filed nothing.
That’s despite donors being explicitly asked to give money “to help us fund the establishment of Australia One as a fully registered Australian political party”.
Australian Electoral Commission spokesman Evan Elkin-Smyth said it was highly unlikely AustraliaOne would now be able to become registered.
“The advertising period alone for prospective parties is 30 days, so they’re in a bit of strife time-wise,” he told The Klaxon.
“That’s if they put one in (an application) at all”.
-- “The advertising period alone for prospective parties is 30 days, so they’re in a bit of strife time-wise” — Australian Electoral Commission --
Bosi and his “AustraliaOne Party” have refused to respond, despite repeated requests for comment over the past week.
Telephone calls, text messages and emails – including to each of the group’s alleged “nationwide branches” – have all gone unanswered.
Bosi’s website calls for donations for the “support of the AustraliaOne Party” and collects information from donors.
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Bosi’s Linked-In social media profile shows he has had limited employment in recent years, suggesting he and his wife are being personally financially supported by donations to the party they have failed to register.
-- “Bosi and his wife appear to be being financially supported by donations to the party they have failed to register” --
It says Bosi is the “full-time leader” of the “AustraliaOne Party”, with his only other employment since 2014 being connected to an entity called Lionheart Australasia Pty Ltd, through which he claims to be a “speaker” and promotes his little-known book The Five Pillars of Real Leadership.
He registered the company name “Lionheart Australasia” in 1999, although it appears to have no website, phone number or physical address.
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