Tonight on 7NEWS Spotlight, a fringe belief system rejecting Australia’s laws is thrust into the spotlight, as the program gains rare access to those living by their own rules.
Reporter Ashlee Mullany goes inside the sovereign citizen movement, uncovering how ordinary Australians are being drawn in and why authorities are increasingly concerned about where it could lead.
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They look like everyday Aussies – mums and dads, tradies, pensioners – but they share a radical belief: the laws of Australia don’t apply to them.
In a chilling investigation, 7NEWS Spotlight reporter Ashlee Mullany goes deep inside the fringe movement whose ideology was supercharged by the pandemic and is now firmly on the radar of police and intelligence agencies nationwide.
Sovereign citizens claim taxes are optional, driving licences are a fiction and our courts are illegitimate. Yet many still use public roads, draw on taxpayer-funded services and, in some cases, stockpile weapons – all while denying the state has authority over them.
After months earning the trust of groups who shun the mainstream media, 7NEWS Spotlight gained rare access, exposing how these beliefs take hold, why ordinary people are pulled in and what happens when their fantasy law collides with reality.
Where does free thinking end and real danger begin? When people decide they’re a law unto themselves, who pays the price? Find out this Sunday on 7NEWS Spotlight at 8.00pm on Seven and 7plus.
This new episode of 7NEWS Spotlight: A Law Unto Themselves airs tonight, Sunday 3rd May at 8.00pm on Seven and 7plus
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