Labor tax critic deletes anti-immigration AI video reposted from rightwing nationalist account

The Albanese government’s negative gearing and capital gains tax changes have been attacked as ‘economic vandalism’ by fund manager Geoff Wilson. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP View image in fullscreen The Albanese government’s negative gearing and capital gains tax changes have been attacked as ‘economic vandalism’ by fund manager Geoff Wilson. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP Labor tax critic deletes anti-immigration AI video reposted from rightwing nationalist account Fund manager Geoff Wilson says he did not watch full video and deleted it after ‘inappropriate associations were identified’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The fund manager Geoff Wilson, a prominent public critic of the government’s tax changes, has deleted an inflammatory AI-generated video he reposted from a rightwing nationalist account portraying Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers taking money from white Australians and giving it to recently arrived migrants wearing Islamic face coverings. Wilson said he had not watched the full video before sharing it or examined other accounts, some of whose content he reposted on Wednesday morning – which included content relating to the QAnon conspiracy theory – and deleted his posts after being contacted by Guardian Australia. Capital gains tax changes are already having an impact on wealth inequality – and vested interests are running scared Read more “Once the inappropriate associations were identified, I immediately removed the two posts,” he said. The video posted by Wilson – a relative of the shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson – also includes AI-generated imagery of a protest march where demonstrators hold signs reading “diversity is not our strength” and “treason”, as well as images of a white family with blond children becoming homeless after leaving their house, which is later occupied by a triumphant south Asian family. In other social media posts on X on Wednesday, Wilson also reposted content relating to the QAnon conspiracy theory, and from accounts regularly sharing anti-immigration content. “We have only just begun. We will stop this insane CGT on all Australians businesses!” Wilson wrote alongside the reposted AI-generated video. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email Wilson, the founder and chair of Wilson Asset Management, is a well-known investment manager and often quoted by media as an expert voice on tax and finance. His views are regularly highlighted by 2GB radio, the Australian Financial Review and The Australian newspapers, and Sky News television among others. He is a major public critic of Labor’s contentious negative gearing and capital gains tax changes, calling them “economic vandalism” and an “aspiration tax”, and criticising the government for breaking promises not to change those settings. Wilson was also among the most vocal opponents of Labor’s proposed reforms to franking credits in 2019 and its 2025 changes to tax unrealised gains in superannuation . Senior Coalition figures have