{
  "id": 12681706,
  "title": "When a Liberal senator, I was asked by the party to meet with some ‘business people’. Nobody told me they were Brethren",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/when-a-liberal-senator-i-was-asked-by-the-party-to-meet-with-some",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-07T18:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
    "slug": "the-sydney-morning-herald",
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/when-a-liberal-senator-i-was-asked-by-the-party-to-meet-with-some-business-people-nobody-told-me-they-were-brethren-20261008-p6124f.html?ref=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In the final weeks of the 2025 federal election campaign, I was asked by a senior Liberal Party official to meet two men described to me as small business people who wanted to assist local federal campaigns.",
  "key_points": [],
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      {
        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "When a Liberal senator, I was asked by the party to meet with some ‘business people’. Nobody told me they were Brethren",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/when-a-liberal-senator-i-was-asked-by-the-party-to-meet-with-some-12681766",
        "published": "2026-10-07T18:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}