The Labor senator Sam Dastyari has been abused in a Melbourne bar by a far-right group. The ugly scene in the Victoria University student bar on Wednesday evening was set up, captured by the group on video and posted on Facebook. Dastyari later described the verbal assault as “the sickening face of white nationalists”. The group approached Dastyari, who is of Iranian heritage, and began abusing the high-profile senator, first referencing his controversial political fundraising with Chinese donors. “All of this is the rise of the radical right in this country, it is the rise of One Nation right,” Dastyari said.

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2017 19:38 UTC