{"id":54555,"date":"2026-09-16T15:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=54555"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:13:53","slug":"yeah-nah-pasaran-298-w-michael-bachelard-on-the-exclusive-brethren-september-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=54555","title":{"rendered":"Yeah Nah Pasaran #298 w Michael Bachelard on The Exclusive Brethren : September 17, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z--D1flPLnk?si=oPpDhAeo8QnbfBZI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This week on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3cr.org.au\/yeahnahpasaran\" target=\"_blank\">Yeah Nah Pasaran!<\/a><\/em> we talk to Michael Bachelard. Michael is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/by\/michael-bachelard-hveki\" target=\"_blank\">reporter<\/a> for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and the author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/scribepublications.com.au\/books\/behind-the-exclusive-brethren\" target=\"_blank\">Behind the Exclusive Brethren<\/a><\/em> (Scribe, 2010), which details the church&#8217;s &#8216;origins in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century, their fractious history, their extraordinary use of scripture to control members and dissidents, and their lucrative business and financial arrangements &#8230; a fascinating story of influence and power exercised across several continents.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/tail-film-heckle-inside-the-brethren-s-secret-election-influence-plot-with-the-far-right-20260827-p60s22.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Tail, film, heckle\u2019: Inside the Brethren\u2019s secret election influence plot with the far-right<\/a> by Sherryn Groch and Michael Bachelard (The Age, September 13, 2026), it was reported that &#8216;Leaked messages reveal the full story of how the Exclusive Brethren secretly recruited neo-Nazi associates to harass MPs at the election. As the church denies it, one elder confirms his involvement.&#8217; Among the binfluencers named in the article are Laurence McIntyre, <a href=\"https:\/\/honisoit.com\/2020\/08\/far-right-activist-turns-up-to-solidarity-blm-forum-at-usyd\" target=\"_blank\">Chris de Bruyne<\/a> (AKA Chriscoveries\/Australian Firebrand), (Proud Boy) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/27\/anti-lockdown-protest-organiser-charged-with-incitement-over-melbourne-rally\" target=\"_blank\">Harrison McLean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.li\/XFZZX\" target=\"_blank\">Barclay McGain<\/a> (&#8216;You&#8217;ve Done It Again&#8217;\/CPAC Australia) and (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/federal-election\/rightwing-blogger-morgan-jonas-enters-corflute-wars\/news-story\/2e0c982095b582dc727b3ac55d4519c0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;That&#8217;s Freedom!&#8217;<\/a>) Morgan C Jonas.<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/assault-on-democracy-brethren-leaders-called-to-answer-for-far-right-election-plot-20260916-p60xs7.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Assault on democracy\u2019: Brethren leaders called to answer for far-right election plot<\/a>, Michael Bachelard and Sherryn Groch, The Age, September 16, 2026 \/\/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/who-are-the-brethren-and-what-do-they-believe-in-290324\" target=\"_blank\">Who are the Brethren and what do they believe in?<\/a>, Bernard Doherty, The Conversation, August 26, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.30pm, September 17, 2026 \/\/\/ 855AM, digital, streaming, <a href=\"https:\/\/communityradio.plus\" target=\"_blank\">Community Radio Plus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3cr.org.au\/yeahnahpasaran\" target=\"_blank\">podcats<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This episode will be available as a podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/yeah-nah-pasaran\/id1529396490\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/64t976Zwix2PFoVujX23BV\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and other platforms after broadcast.<br \/>\n\u2022 We also have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yeahnahpasaran\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> for the show, which you\u2019re invited to \u2018Like\u2019 and to \u2018Follow\u2019, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you&#8217;ll never notice it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Michael Bachelard. Michael is a reporter for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and the author of Behind the Exclusive Brethren (Scribe, 2010), which details the church&#8217;s &#8216;origins in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=54555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,29,16,9,17],"tags":[461,5457,5458,5455,5456,5459,5452,5454,4411,5405,5242,5450,5460,5451,5453,3176,3996],"class_list":["post-54555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-broken-windows","category-media","category-state","category-student-movement","tag-3cr","tag-australian-firebrand","tag-barclay-mcgain","tag-chris-de-bruyne","tag-chriscoveries","tag-cpac-australia","tag-exclusive-brethren","tag-exclusive-brethren-christian-church","tag-harrison-mclean","tag-laurence-mcintyre","tag-lawrence-mcintyre","tag-michael-bachelard","tag-morgan-c-jonas","tag-plymouth-brethren","tag-plymouth-brethren-christian-church","tag-proud-boys","tag-yeah-nah-pasaran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-ebV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54555"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54565,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54555\/revisions\/54565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}