‘Tear the place down’: Inside cookers’ bizarre plan to run for NSW Parliament

Two of Australia’s best-known “cookers” have revealed their unhinged plot to “collapse the entire system” in a wild video.

Two of Australia’s best-known “cookers” have revealed plans to contest the upcoming NSW state election in order to “tear the place down”.

In a recent video shared on social media, Riccardo Bosi – a former Australian Army Special Forces lieutenant colonel turned right-wing extremist – revealed both he and fellow high-profile conspiracy theorist Dave “Guru” Graham planned to run in next month’s vote.

Bosi is the leader of the AustraliaOne party, however, it is not officially registered, so he will run as an independent candidate.

He claimed that while there were “a couple of lower house seats” that will be contested by “independents that we're pretty keen on”, he and Graham would be running for the upper house.

“This will be a statewide election so we’re going to mobilise the entire state,” Bosi says in the clip.

“Now the rest of Australia can’t vote, but they can certainly make this a national event, and in fact we’ve got a lot of support internationally, we’re going to make sure the entire world knows that this is the one story in Australia that they need to follow.

Dave ‘Guru’ Graham, left, and Riccardo Bosi, right, actually believe they will be elected in March. Pictures: Twitter

“Now why is that? Because we’re going to get into NSW Parliament, but we’re not going to get in, in order to do deals with a corrupted and fetid polity that resides here. We have no intention of doing that, none.

“We are getting in to tear the place down, metaphorically of course.”

Bosi claimed that if successful, as members of parliament, the pair would have access to information that would allow them to “start revealing the truth about what every NSW government has been doing for decades, and we can present that to you the people”.

“Our objective is to collapse the government that’s elected in March, to collapse the entire system, the polity, the judiciary, the constabulary, the lot,” he continues.

“They’re all coming down. Nothing but the truth is going to be our catchcry.”

He described his mate Guru – a concreter from Wollongong – as someone who was “straight as an arrow” and willing to “fight for the people for the right reasons”.

“So between the two of us I’m sure that we can get 4.5 per cent of the vote,” he said.

Riccardo Bosi, the independent candidate for Greenway in NSW.

“Mobilise the state, get everybody on board, get in there, and once again, the purpose is to collapse the NSW Parliament and government and reveal the depravity of the crimes being committed by your elected representatives.”

On the website for his unregistered political party, Bosi writes: “Australia, it is time that We The People STOP making excuses for those who were ‘hired’ to help our nation grow, to help keep you and yours safe, to better our nation … as a unified ‘organisation’.”

Often seen speaking at anti-vaccine and anti-government rallies, Bosi was filmed last year telling his audience, “You are sovereign”.

He told the crowd that some in ASIO and other bureaucrats were guilty of treason – though it wasn’t made clear why.

“Anybody who has taken an act of treason or sedition against the Australian people will be investigated, charged, if found guilty, punished,” he told his followers.

“Now the punishment … this gets a lot of popular response … for the worst case of treason, the death penalty.

“Sedition? Life in prison without the possibility of parole.

“Any Mason who has been in the public sector of any sort … is guilty of at least sedition and at worst treason.”

2GB radio host Ben Fordham has taken aim at ‘cookers’ on-air. Picture: John Feder/The Australian

Bosi is a popular figure in the scene, often seen at rallies posing for photographs with enthusiastic followers.

Meanwhile, Guru – who has also been described as a sovereign citizen, but who prefers the term “free thinker” – has amassed a following online with frequent live streams pushing for Australians to ditch government rule.

He recently made headlines after recording himself bombarding staff at 2GB with phone calls after claiming they were snubbed by radio host Ben Fordham for a spot on the show.

Among his outrageous beliefs is the claim the Covid pandemic wasn’t real, and that the government “needs to be removed”.

Originally published as ‘Tear the place down’: Inside cookers’ bizarre plan to run for NSW Parliament