Liberals dump candidate over Indigenous slurs on secret Facebook account

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A political party removed its endorsement of a candidate from Williamstown. This action followed the discovery of a secret Facebook account named after the candidate's yacht. The account was used to target Indigenous Australians with racist tropes.

The party disendorsed its Williamstown candidate after it emerged he used a Facebook account named after his yacht to attack Indigenous Australians with racist tropes.

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