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Australian’s Labor MP’s dad in homophobic outburst at polling booth

Brian Denny, a candidate for the Labor Party in Bedlington Central, shared a post criticizing a fellow candidate, captioned: 'When your gay boyfriend gets angry with your friends.'
A Labour spokesman stated that these homophobic comments from Nigel Farage's candidate for Bedlington Central are simply unacceptable.
The Labor Party filed a complaint with the Australian Electoral Commission about Heart Party volunteers taunting Labor MP Jerome Laxale.
Jerome Laxale, a successful campaigner for Labor, faces a tight race in a seat now seen as Liberal with a 0.04 percent margin.

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Australian’s Labor MP’s dad in homophobic outburst at polling booth

A Labor MP in one of the country’s tightest election battles has been forced to apologise after his father made homophobic comments towards a Liberal Party volunteer.

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Labor MP apologises after father makes homophobic slurs at polling booth

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Bedlington Central Reform candidate accused of making homophobic Facebook post

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Labor MP’s dad in homophobic outburst at polling booth

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