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Communist accepts an Australia Day honour in a bit of a fog (6)

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I believe the answer is:

maoist

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'communist' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'accepts an australia day honour in a bit of a fog' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'an' could be 'i' (Roman numeral for one) and 'i' is found in the answer.
'australia' could be 'a' (abbreviation for Australia) and 'a' is found within the answer.
'bit' could be 'o' (resembles 0, a binary digit or bit) and 'o' is present in the answer.
'honour' could be 'ms' (MS is an example) and 'ms' is present in the leftover letters.
A single letter 't' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for maoist that I've seen before include "Political ideologist" , "Supporter of a previous Chinese leader" , "Devotee once of the little red book" , "supporter of old Communist" , "Chinese revolutionary" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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