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'There are still people recovering from the trauma': The Goldstein campaign was worse than we thought
While the 2025 federal election inquiry has shown there was a clear rise in hostility at election booths around the country, Tim Wilson's electorate of Goldstein seems to have reached another level.
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'There are still people recovering from the trauma': The Goldstein campaign was worse than we thought
While the 2025 federal election inquiry has shown there was a clear rise in hostility at election booths around the country, Tim Wilson's electorate of Goldstein seems to have reached another level.
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'There are still people recovering from the trauma': The Goldstein campaign was worse than we thought
While the 2025 federal election inquiry has shown there was a clear rise in hostility at election booths around the country, Tim Wilson's electorate of Goldstein seems to have reached another level.
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rachel's piece. which did not cover other dirty tricks like the catholic schools' writing to all parents falsely claiming the teals would cut catholic schools' subsidies, which would cost parents. and they it did so on the eve of the election, so the teals had little chance to refute it. so much for teaching truthfulness. very christian.
and we should all be concerned at the rise of these third-party organisations. advance is but one.
"It was clear things got a bit intense down in Goldstein during the 2025 federal election.
The campaign that saw former Liberal MP Tim Wilson oust independent Zoe Daniel was described at the time as “ruthless”, with Wilson having made no secret of his fervent desire to reclaim the bayside seat. In an AFR piece looking at how Wilson bucked the national trend, winning the seat by 175 votes, Daniel’s camp called it “brutal, hostile and abusive”, saying he exploited the trauma of the Jewish community. Crikey readers described his campaign as “nasty” and “dirty”, suggesting Daniel was “too decent” to go low in return.
In June, Daniel spoke out on ABC Melbourne, calling out the “unfair” tactics used by the Liberal Party and its “various proxies”, referring to groups like Advance and Repeal the Teal. Daniel said the campaign against her was “vicious” and “personal”, with lies spread that she was antisemitic and supported terrorists.
Then, in August, Labor MP Mark Dreyfus — whose Isaacs electorate shared a polling booth with Goldstein — took to parliament to decry the abusive and threatening behaviour of Wilson’s volunteers, noting Daniel ended up needing police protection after her car was posted online.
“One incident reported involved a Liberal campaigner verbally abusing two young women, including one who was just 17 years old, calling them ‘little scum’,” Dreyfus said, adding that Wilson failed to condemn such incidents, making risible excuses like “low blood sugar levels”.
As Dreyfus remarked, “abuse and intimidation can erode confidence in our democracy,” suggesting Goldstein was reflective of a “broader challenge facing democracies in Australia and across the world [in which] harmful political discourse, threats of violence and death, and the harassment of candidates are pushing people away from public life.”
But it’s not until you read the recent submissions to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’ (JSCEM) 2025 election inquiry that you get a full picture of just how bad things got in Goldstein.
While there was a clear rise in hostility at booths around the country, Goldstein seems to have reached another level, with almost an entire day of hearings put aside for Daniel campaigners, who say they faced aggression that left them afraid to wear their t-shirts or travel alone in public (police, in fact, advised them to travel in groups).
Submission 108, which came from a collective of Daniel volunteers, described various examples of being screamed at and threatened, with letters distributed to supporters’ letterboxes accusing them of antisemitism and saying they were “no longer welcome in this neighbourhood”.
Much of this aggressive behaviour is ascribed to volunteers for third-party organisations, including Repeal the Teal, the Teals Revealed and Advance, all of whom were present on booths advocating for voters to put Daniel last. But various submissions say campaigners often swapped between third-party and Liberal shirts, with one individual photographed in each.
A number of Daniel volunteers who identify as Jewish say they faced particularly horrific abuse from third-party group J-United, whose volunteers regularly accused them of being “self-hating Jews”. Daniel campaign analyst and rabbi Yaron Gottleib, who also appeared at the November 12 hearing, collated a survey of harrowing experiences (submission 104), with one Jewish teal supporter told he was “a kapo of the antisemite”, while another had his small business threatened for putting up a campaign poster.
The evidence of Daniel’s son Arkin (21:30 in the hearing recording, transcript here) was also harrowing, describing the “intimidation and abuse” that became part of everyday life for the Daniel-Reid family, from tailgating to doxxing to being told by one campaigner that “your mum is a bitch”. As Arkin told the inquiry, Wilson never condemned what was happening to his opponent, going so far as to accuse Daniel of “using” the doxxing incident “for political gain”.
Daniel did not herself give evidence at the hearing, but tells Crikey: “The campaign was divisive and toxic and it shouldn’t be this way. I hope the Liberal Party takes a good hard look at itself and its tactics. No candidate or community member should feel intimidated when engaging with the election process.”
Sue Barrett, a former Daniel volunteer who also gave evidence to the JSCEM hearing, says there appears to be no consequences for what happened, with proxy groups like Advance getting worse between 2022 and 2025.
“You just had these emboldened, entitled people who felt they could do and say anything to the rest of us and hurl abuse at us,” she tells me via phone. “There are still people recovering from the trauma of what they experienced.”
“My take is that Goldstein was a laboratory. The tactics tested on us in 2022 and refined in the Voice [referendum] in 2023 were fully deployed in 2025, and they worked.”
Barrett recently posted about the snarky way in which Wilson replies to some constituents who campaigned for Daniel, remarking upon that fact in replies from his official parliamentary email address — emails Crikey has sighted.
Asked for comment, a spokesperson for Wilson did not specifically address this or any other matter put to him, pointing instead to comments the Goldstein MP made in parliament about homophobia, and wishing his opponents a pleasant summer.
“Mr Wilson’s office has sadly had to make its fourth formal report this morning to the Australian Federal Police about Teal volunteer intimidation against his team.
“Mr Wilson has commented on election conduct in the House of Representatives: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar..._Display?bid=chamber/hansardr/28839/&sid=0104
“Mr Wilson has lived the journey of the former member and her proxies. Mr Wilson made a decision the Sunday morning after the 2022 election to accept the result because life is too short to be captured by anger. He hopes they enjoy summer and find peace.”
Like Dreyfus, Barrett believes all of this represents an existential threat to our democracy, amid concerns the tactics seen in Goldstein will be rolled out across the rest of the country.
“What happened in Goldstein 2025 was a warning,” she says grimly. “What happens next is a choice.”
and we should all be concerned at the rise of these third-party organisations. advance is but one.
"It was clear things got a bit intense down in Goldstein during the 2025 federal election.
The campaign that saw former Liberal MP Tim Wilson oust independent Zoe Daniel was described at the time as “ruthless”, with Wilson having made no secret of his fervent desire to reclaim the bayside seat. In an AFR piece looking at how Wilson bucked the national trend, winning the seat by 175 votes, Daniel’s camp called it “brutal, hostile and abusive”, saying he exploited the trauma of the Jewish community. Crikey readers described his campaign as “nasty” and “dirty”, suggesting Daniel was “too decent” to go low in return.
In June, Daniel spoke out on ABC Melbourne, calling out the “unfair” tactics used by the Liberal Party and its “various proxies”, referring to groups like Advance and Repeal the Teal. Daniel said the campaign against her was “vicious” and “personal”, with lies spread that she was antisemitic and supported terrorists.
Then, in August, Labor MP Mark Dreyfus — whose Isaacs electorate shared a polling booth with Goldstein — took to parliament to decry the abusive and threatening behaviour of Wilson’s volunteers, noting Daniel ended up needing police protection after her car was posted online.
“One incident reported involved a Liberal campaigner verbally abusing two young women, including one who was just 17 years old, calling them ‘little scum’,” Dreyfus said, adding that Wilson failed to condemn such incidents, making risible excuses like “low blood sugar levels”.
As Dreyfus remarked, “abuse and intimidation can erode confidence in our democracy,” suggesting Goldstein was reflective of a “broader challenge facing democracies in Australia and across the world [in which] harmful political discourse, threats of violence and death, and the harassment of candidates are pushing people away from public life.”
But it’s not until you read the recent submissions to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’ (JSCEM) 2025 election inquiry that you get a full picture of just how bad things got in Goldstein.
While there was a clear rise in hostility at booths around the country, Goldstein seems to have reached another level, with almost an entire day of hearings put aside for Daniel campaigners, who say they faced aggression that left them afraid to wear their t-shirts or travel alone in public (police, in fact, advised them to travel in groups).
Submission 108, which came from a collective of Daniel volunteers, described various examples of being screamed at and threatened, with letters distributed to supporters’ letterboxes accusing them of antisemitism and saying they were “no longer welcome in this neighbourhood”.
Much of this aggressive behaviour is ascribed to volunteers for third-party organisations, including Repeal the Teal, the Teals Revealed and Advance, all of whom were present on booths advocating for voters to put Daniel last. But various submissions say campaigners often swapped between third-party and Liberal shirts, with one individual photographed in each.
A number of Daniel volunteers who identify as Jewish say they faced particularly horrific abuse from third-party group J-United, whose volunteers regularly accused them of being “self-hating Jews”. Daniel campaign analyst and rabbi Yaron Gottleib, who also appeared at the November 12 hearing, collated a survey of harrowing experiences (submission 104), with one Jewish teal supporter told he was “a kapo of the antisemite”, while another had his small business threatened for putting up a campaign poster.
The evidence of Daniel’s son Arkin (21:30 in the hearing recording, transcript here) was also harrowing, describing the “intimidation and abuse” that became part of everyday life for the Daniel-Reid family, from tailgating to doxxing to being told by one campaigner that “your mum is a bitch”. As Arkin told the inquiry, Wilson never condemned what was happening to his opponent, going so far as to accuse Daniel of “using” the doxxing incident “for political gain”.
Daniel did not herself give evidence at the hearing, but tells Crikey: “The campaign was divisive and toxic and it shouldn’t be this way. I hope the Liberal Party takes a good hard look at itself and its tactics. No candidate or community member should feel intimidated when engaging with the election process.”
Sue Barrett, a former Daniel volunteer who also gave evidence to the JSCEM hearing, says there appears to be no consequences for what happened, with proxy groups like Advance getting worse between 2022 and 2025.
“You just had these emboldened, entitled people who felt they could do and say anything to the rest of us and hurl abuse at us,” she tells me via phone. “There are still people recovering from the trauma of what they experienced.”
“My take is that Goldstein was a laboratory. The tactics tested on us in 2022 and refined in the Voice [referendum] in 2023 were fully deployed in 2025, and they worked.”
Barrett recently posted about the snarky way in which Wilson replies to some constituents who campaigned for Daniel, remarking upon that fact in replies from his official parliamentary email address — emails Crikey has sighted.
Asked for comment, a spokesperson for Wilson did not specifically address this or any other matter put to him, pointing instead to comments the Goldstein MP made in parliament about homophobia, and wishing his opponents a pleasant summer.
“Mr Wilson’s office has sadly had to make its fourth formal report this morning to the Australian Federal Police about Teal volunteer intimidation against his team.
“Mr Wilson has commented on election conduct in the House of Representatives: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar..._Display?bid=chamber/hansardr/28839/&sid=0104
“Mr Wilson has lived the journey of the former member and her proxies. Mr Wilson made a decision the Sunday morning after the 2022 election to accept the result because life is too short to be captured by anger. He hopes they enjoy summer and find peace.”
Like Dreyfus, Barrett believes all of this represents an existential threat to our democracy, amid concerns the tactics seen in Goldstein will be rolled out across the rest of the country.
“What happened in Goldstein 2025 was a warning,” she says grimly. “What happens next is a choice.”