One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts has caused further confusion in comments about the Bondi beach antisemitic terror attack , clarifying that he thought it was an “absurd proposition” to call the shooting a “false flag” but standing by his claim that he didn’t have “data” to rule it out.

Roberts, Pauline Hanson’s fellow senator from Queensland, was interviewed on a YouTube channel, with the clip posted earlier this month. At one point in the 23-minute clip, social media creator Lisa Jane Spencer asked “do you think that Bondi was a false flag?”

A “false flag” is a term for an event or attack which would later be blamed on someone other than the actual perpetrator.…