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	Podcast:		Please Explain
	Episode:		Porepunkah shooting: What is the sovereign citizen movement?
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:15:22
	Publish Date:		2025-08-27 08:33:34
	Description:		As we record this episode, the Victorian High Country is the scene of an intense hunt for a man accused of shooting and killing two police officers, and injuring a third. The man Victoria Police say they are searching for is Desmond Christopher Filby, aka Dezi Freeman, a radicalised conspiracy theorist, and self-described “sovereign citizen”, who espoused hatred for police. But what is a sovereign citizen, and how widespread is the movement in Australia? Today, associate professor Dr Joshua Roose, who was an expert witness in a similar, notorious shooting in Queensland, on whether the sovereign citizen movement has been underestimated Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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