The moment a Yes23 campaigner was confronted by a man who stormed into a meeting and demanded that organisers change his mind on the referendum has emerged online.
The private planning meeting on Friday between members of the Yes campaign was disrupted in Albury, on the New South Wales-Victoria border, by Bradley Beaven.
The agitator filmed himself entering the meeting venue before he’s met by a female campaigner in a hallway.
He then insists she change his mind and convince him to vote Yes.
After repeatedly telling Mr Beaven that the event was not public before threatening to call the police, he threatened to call the authorities himself.
This is not the first time Mr Beaven has been caught harassing Yes23 campaigners, as he filmed himself doing the same last week in Melbourne.
Bradley Beaven (pictured) tried crashing a private Yes23 campaign meeting before confronting a campaigner and asking her to change his mind about the referendum
After repeatedly telling Mr Beaven that the event was not public before threatening to call the police, he threatened to call the authorities himself
In the video, Mr Beaven immediately introduces himself as a ‘vote no-er’ which prompts the campaigner to show him the door.
‘I’d like you to change my mind,’ he asks.
‘This is actually not an open meeting, it’s a planning meeting for our campaign, so you’ll see us out on the street doing things,’ the Yes campaigner replies.
‘I’d just like you to change my mind while I’m here now, why are you voting yes,’ he persists.
The campaigner quickly loses her patience with his line of inquiry as he continues trying to provoke a debate.
‘I’d just like you to change my mind,’ he insists.
‘Well, you’ll see us out and about,’ she repeats.
‘No, right now,’ Mr Beaven demands.
The two then speak over each other about who is being more disrespectful before the campaigner notices Mr Beaven recording the exchange.
‘You have not asked my permission to film me,’ the campaigner said.
‘I’ve got my own permission, thank you,’ Mr Beaven replies.
After Mr Beaven refuses to leave and continues to film, the woman says that she will get the police involved which appears to inflame him.
‘Give the police a call because you should be arrested and charged for treasoning against the people of this country,’ Mr Beaven snaps back as he’s escorted out of the building.
As he makes his way towards the exit Mr Beaven begins screaming ‘VOTE NO’ while he was still within earshot of the meeting.
‘You sellout traitors of this f****** country.’
Mr Beaven continues screaming as he walks out into the dark, empty streets with two friends, one of whom is wearing a ‘f*** the system’ t-shirt.
A week before trying to crash the Yes23 organising meeting, Mr Beaven brazenly called another campaigner a ‘f***wit’ in Melbourne’s CBD.
Mr Beaven has confronted Yes23 campaigners before, most recently filming himself in Melbourne’s CBD last week doing the same
The agitator approached a male campaigner who was handing out flyers and called him a slew of names including a traitor
Sticking to his familiar script, Mr Beaven also labelled the Melbourne campaigner a ‘traitorous f***ing dog’ after their altercation.
The man, who was innocuously handing out flyers at the time, quietly stood there and copped the abuse before walking away.
Mr Beaven said the verbal onslaught was warranted because he had been heckled by three Yes campaigners earlier in the day.
He said he only left the area ‘because there were children around’.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Yes23 for comment.
There is less than a month until Australians decide if they want to support enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the constitution.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warned of the consequences of a No vote in a speech he delivered in Adelaide announcing the date of the vote.
‘On October 14 you are not being asked to vote for a political party or a person. You’re being asked to say yes to an idea whose time has come,’ Mr Albanese told the audience.
‘Let’s be very clear about the alternative. Voting no means going nowhere. It closes the door on this opportunity to move forward. Don’t close the door on constitutional recognition… don’t close the door on the next generation of Indigenous Australians. Vote yes.’
The question presented to Australians will be: ‘A proposed law: to alter the constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?’
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