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Former South Australian opposition leader David Speirs is taking medical leave, after declaring a video allegedly showing him snorting a powder is a “deepfake” or an elaborate hoax. The Adelaide Advertiser on Monday published a video on its website showing a man who appeared to be Speirs sniffing an unidentified substance on a grey plate through a rolled up $5 note. On Wednesday, Speirs said the last few days had been “exceptionally distressing for me and my loved ones”.
“In that time, he has stood down from the Liberal Party leadership, attended a wedding in Scotland, repeatedly criticised his successor Vincent Tarzia and the South Australian Liberal Party organisation in general and dismissed troubling vision appearing to depict him snorting a white powder as a deepfake or elaborate hoax,” Koutsantonis said. He added that Speirs was adamant he had done nothing wrong, so it was time for him to return to the work he was elected to do.
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