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Labor wants right wing 'bigot' banned from Australia ahead of conservative conference

Labor wants right wing figure Raheem Kassam banned from Australia ahead of his scheduled speech at a conservative conference in Sydney.

Labor wants right wing figure Raheem Kassam (left) banned from Australia.

Labor wants right wing figure Raheem Kassam (left) banned from Australia. Source: AAP

Labor has called on the government to block a firebrand right wing figure from visiting Australia where he is due to speak at a conservative conference alongside former prime minister Tony Abbott and Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage. 

Former Breitbart editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam is billed as a "British political activist" by the organisers of the Conservative Political Action Conference to be held in Sydney next week. 

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