Denise Ferris: Yes 選挙運動者's bizarre justification for spitting on a No 支持する during 緊張した 対決 over the 発言する/表明する

A Yes 選挙運動者 and 目だつ academic filmed spitting on a No 支持する, (人命などを)奪う,主張するs she was only trying to '封鎖する his camera without engaging in physical 接触する'.

Denise Ferris, an Emeritus Professor at Canberra's Australian 国家の University, got into a heated 対決 with serial publicity 探検者 Andrew Thaler over the 近づいている 発言する/表明する 国民投票.

The (映画の)フィート数 広範囲にわたって 株d on social マスコミ shows?Prof Ferris spit on Mr?Thaler after 存在 called a 'stupid mole' at an?event in Cooma, in NSW's south-east, on Sunday afternoon.

But Prof Ferris said Mr Thaler had 刺激するd the 遭遇(する) after he accosted her while she was standing outside the Yes23 volunteer's テント.

'Out of the blue, Andrew Thaler moved toward me filming me with his iPhone 延長するd,' she wrote.

During the confrontation with Andrew Thaler?Denise Ferris can be seen leaning forward and spitting

During the 対決 with Andrew Thaler?Denise Ferris can be seen leaning 今後 and spitting?

Professor Ferris said she 'felt 脅迫してさせるd' because he was 持つ/拘留するing the camera out 'like a 武器 pointed at me'?and 叫び声をあげるing 'give me the bitch's 指名する' as part of foul-mouthed tirade.?

'I was more than terrified, he was literally in my 直面する, I had a visceral 返答, a panic attack, fight or flight,' Professor Ferris said.

'I did not spit on him. I 手配中の,お尋ね者 to 封鎖する his camera without engaging in physical 接触する. Fli ght? Am I to turn my 支援する on him ― no way, too 脅すd of his 活動/戦闘s, it was so traumatic.'

The professor, who 持つ/拘留するs an 未払いの position with ANU, also (刑事)被告 Mr Thaler of ひどく editing the ビデオ and setting 'a 罠(にかける)' for her because he was a 'professional 十分な time provocateur'.

She 否定するd that the argument had been over the Indigenous 発言する/表明する at all, にもかかわらず her wearing a Yes23 t-shirt and Mr Thaler 存在 a 信頼できる 対抗者 of the 提案.

Thaler, encourages the professor to call the police, again reminding her that she'd just spit at him

Thaler, encourages the professor to call the police, again reminding her that she'd just spit at him

'Please 公式文書,認める, some of my best friends here are No 投票者s, LNP, we have never argued about this and never will,' she said in the email.

While other 証言,証人/目撃するs have said Mr Thaler was 存在 挑発的な it is?不明瞭な what was said during the 交流 before the camera started rolling.?

In the ビデオ, Mr Thaler tells the professor she is a 'stupid m**e' and 需要・要求するs she 'get out of the way'.

She 報復するs by coming even closer to the camera.

'Do not... don't you dare call me that,' she says.?

Ferris is an Emeritus Professor at Canberra's Australian National University, which is an unpaid position

Ferris is an Emeritus Professor at Canberra's Australian 国家の University, which is an 未払いの position

She leans 今後 and spits at the camera, before returning to the (人が)群がる of Yes23 選挙運動者s underneath their テントs.?

Mr Thaler (人命などを)奪う,主張するs he approached the Yes23 テント when Professor Ferris tried to 封鎖する him from getting の近くに.?

He told Daily Mail Australia the テント had a petting zoo with lambs, and that he believed it was a 策略 to 誘惑する in children and families to discuss the 発言する/表明する.?

The altercation started while he was trying to take photos of the lambs 'to show they (the Yes (選挙などの)運動をする) would do anything... even 偉業/利用する animals'.

After the 初期の 対決 Thaler follows Professor Ferris 支援する to her group, 述べるing her as a 'crazy b**ch' and 需要・要求するing to know her 指名する.

He tells her she could be 'done for 強襲,強姦' for spitting on him.

'Don't stalk me. Go away,' she says. 'I'm calling the police.'

Mr Thaler encourages the professor to call the police, again reminding her that she'd just spat on him, which she 否定するd.

'I did not,' she said.???

Andrew Thaler, the man at the centre of the clip, claims he approached the Yes23 tent during a campaign event in Centennial Park in Cooma on Sunday afternoon when the professor tried to block him

Andrew Thaler, the man at the centre of the clip, (人命などを)奪う,主張するs he approached the Yes23 テント during a (選挙などの)運動をする event in Centennial Park in Cooma on Sunday afternoon when the professor tried to 封鎖する him

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He later told Daily Mail Australia police arrived on the scene by about 2pm, and are now 調査/捜査するing the 出来事/事件.

A NSW Police 広報担当者 確認するd an 調査 is 進行中で.

'Officers 大(公)使館員d to Monaro Police 地区 were told three people had been 伴う/関わるd in a physical altercation,' the 広報担当者 said.

'No 傷害s were 報告(する)/憶測d, and police are 調査/捜査するing the 出来事/事件.'

An ANU spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia they are '調査/捜査するing, and will take appropriate 活動/戦闘 as 要求するd'.

'This ビデオ has just been brought to the university's attention. Emeritus professors are not paid members of staff,' the spokesperson said.

The professor's online profile was 除去するd from the university's website on Thursday.?

Mr Thaler?has 法廷,裁判所d 論争 over the past year.?

He was branded a 'parasite' by 2GB presenter Ben Fordham after he (人命などを)奪う,主張するd to speak on に代わって of the family whose grandmother, Clare Nowland, 95, was fatally tasered at a nursing home in Cooma on May 17.

He has also run for political office at さまざまな levels of 政府.

In 2022 he pleaded 有罪の to 脅迫してさせるing a 田舎の 解雇する/砲火/射撃 Service staff member four years earlier but 避けるd a 有罪の判決.

For the 発言する/表明する to 後継する, the Yes (選挙などの)運動をする needs to 勝利,勝つ more than 50 per cent of the 投票(する) across the nation and in four of the six 明言する/公表するs on October 14, when the 国民投票 will be held.?

The most 最近の 解決する Political 監視する 調査する?showed 43 per cent of 投票者s supported a 計画(する) to enshrine the 発言する/表明する into the 憲法, 負かす/撃墜する 20 百分率 points from a year ago.

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