Q: Last night, you were confronted by a couple of people in the lobby of your hotel. Do those sort of interactions make you rethink, I guess, the exposure that you have to the public and these sort of they weren’t quite protesters yesterday, but these sort of interactions have been sort of a common theme of this campaign on both sides. Do you have any idea or intelligence of how people are actually finding where you and Peter Dutton were popping up at events?

That’s the Guardian’s Josh Butler, and he’s talking about how Albanese was ambushed by alt-right content creators at his hotel in Melbourne yesterday. The group managed to get to Albanese in the lobby of the hotel, which is obviously a security breach.

Both campaign, as Josh said in his question there, have been the targets of protesters. Rising Tide have been asking questions at press conferences, while other protesters have interrupted press conferences. Protest is a right within a democracy. And the protesters have chosen public spaces to make their points.

Yesterday in the lobby was different, which is why it has unsettled people. It wasn’t protesters, it was alt-right influencers who managed to bypass security. That’s why people are starting to get nervous.