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Legislative Council - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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Personal Explanation

MEMBER'S FACEBOOK PAGE

The Hon. A. BRESSINGTON (14:18): I seek leave to make a personal statement.

Leave granted.

The Hon. A. BRESSINGTON: Over the last few weeks gradually my Facebook page has been hacked. My personal information has been accessed and friends on my page have also had their Facebook pages compromised. A page has been set up using my identity called 'the Ann Bressington appreciation page'. It is a hate page, by the way. It says, 'A big thank you to all Ann Bressington supporters coming here and letting us harvest their names, social media and other details. They have been added to our database. You have been most helpful. Thank you very much.'

I have been unable to delete posts that have been put on my Facebook page. Statements have been made in my name that I have never made. Comments that I have not made, with my picture beside them, have been posted on other Facebook pages, and other messages have been circulated around false Facebook pages claiming to be connected to me. I was up until three this morning trying to delete over 1,000 people who have been put on to my page without my accepting them. After I finished I got a message on my screen saying, 'Ann Bressington, in 2.45 seconds, what do you see?' All the deletions that I had spent 3½ hours on were reinstalled on to my Facebook page!

I have been unable to deactivate my page. I have had four attempts to do this, and each time I have deactivated it I have got up the next day and there it is. Last night I deactivated it at 3 o'clock and it seems to have taken this time. I know of three people who are absolutely involved in this, and I am making a report to the police commissioner because they have circulated their identities on Twitter and have sent me messages on my email address at home and identified themselves and who they are working with.

There are people in here who are on my Facebook page, and this is to let them know that your information is at risk because they can hack into anybody's information that is on my Facebook page. One of the people is a lawyer, and he has already been charged and convicted with fraud of over $30 million from a Victorian university, and he has also been charged with making death threats against the head of the anti-vaccination network and pursuing her for almost three years and causing her distress and harm.

I am basically saying that people in here need to delete themselves because I do not have the ability to delete anybody from my page and, if you are on there, get yourself off. I have also seen screenshots of another page in my name using my identity, and they have been sent to me over my phone, so they have actually accessed my phone, too. For anybody in here, this is a warning to all of you: they can access your banking details, get into your private email and basically do as much damage as they can. So, if you are on my page, please remove yourselves.

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