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Labor Senator Sam Dastyari has been racially abused in a pub by a far-right group.
Members of anti-Islam group Patriot Blue, which stormed a Moreland Council meeting in September after the council voted to scrap citizenship ceremonies on January 26, confronted Dastyari at a pub in Melbourne, calling him a “terrorist” and a “monkey” and telling him to “go back to Iran”. Patriot Blue filmed the encounter and posted it on the group’s Facebook page. The group is named after a fictional neo-Nazi group in the upcoming TV remake of Romper Stomper …
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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper