Fraser Anning

[[File:Fraser Anning on The Unshackled Waves.jpg|thumb|200 px|Fraser himself.]]
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'''William Fraser Anning''' {{lived|1949}} is an [[Australia]]n politician who, despite receiving just 19 votes<ref>{{cite news|author= |title=How Fraser Anning ended up in parliament|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-fraser-anning-ended-up-in-parliament|accessdate=20 March 2019|work=SBS News (Australia)|date=18 March 2019|deadurl=no |archiveurl= |archivedate= |df=}}</ref> in the 2016 federal election, was sitting for Queensland in the Australian Senate from November 2017 to June 2019.{{efn|Proof, once again, that ''[[John Stuart Mill|"bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."]]''}} He was unsuccessful in the 2019 election, with his party receiving 1.28% of the vote in Queensland (and 0.64% nationally) for the Senate.<ref>https://results.aec.gov.au/24310/Website/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroup-24310-QLD.htm</ref>

==A particular kind of vile==
Even with [[Tony Abbott|the]] [[Ken Ham| many]] [[Malcolm Roberts|notably]] [[Rupert Murdoch|toxic]] [[Jacqui Lambie|specimens]] which have crawled up from the sewer to run things down undah, Anning manages to distinguish himself with [[white supremacism]] so thinly veiled it's practically shrink-wrapped. He really started off with a bang in his ''first speech'' to the Senate, which reads like a thread on [[Stormfront]] — complete with a mention of "[[cultural Marxism]]", a jab at "[[Gender fluid|gender fluidity]] garbage," nostalgic longing for the days when anyone could own a [[gun]] and only whites could settle Australia, and even a suggested "[[Final solution|final solution]]" to [[Muslim]] [[immigration]] to Australia.{{efn|Anning's defense has been that this particular quote has been [[Cherry picking|cherry-picked]], and that he was simply presenting the final bullet point in a list of proposals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/08/15/fraser-anning-final-solution-unapologetic/|title=Unapologetic Fraser Anning under fire from all sides after ‘final solution’ Senate speech |website=The New Age (Australia) |language=en|access-date=2018-03-20|archive-url= |dead-url=no|df=}}</ref> Decide for yourself, but [[Dog whistle politics|it's hard to imagine his choice of words was meaningless]] given the context and his history of kecking up racist dreck. }}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://parlview.aph.gov.au/mediaPlayer.php?videoID=410935|title=Senate [Part 1] - 14/08/2018 11:54:59 – Parliament of Australia|website=parlview.aph.gov.au|language=en|access-date=2018-08-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814232558/http://parlview.aph.gov.au/mediaPlayer.php?videoID=410935|archive-date=2018-08-14|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref>

Before becoming the ''"{{wpl|Gauführer}} of Gladstone"'' he was near bankruptcy,<ref name="guardian_bankruptcy">{{cite news|last1=Remeikis|first1=Amy|title=One Nation's next-in-line senator mired in legal proceedings since April 2016|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/sep/28/one-nations-next-in-line-senator-mired-in-legal-proceedings-since-april-2016|accessdate=10 November 2017|work=The Guardian|date=27 September 2017|deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114808/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/sep/28/one-nations-next-in-line-senator-mired-in-legal-proceedings-since-april-2016 |archivedate=10 November 2017|df=}}</ref> but then a weird Aussie [[Obama citizenship denial|birther]] crisis came along and bailed him out when it turned out his predecessor, [[Malcolm Roberts]], was ineligible to have run in the election. Since then, he's kept busy palling around with [[Blair Cottrell|neo-Nazis]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/heavy-police-presence-in-st-kilda-as-protest-groups-converge/news-story/ca8fd8a5af11e28f45d2c9d9f1a3b6a1|title=Fraser Anning slammed for attending St Kilda far-Right rally|last=Smethurst|first=Annika|date=6 January 2019|work=Herald Sun|accessdate=6 January 2019|display-authors=etal}}</ref> [[Victim blaming|blaming 50 innocent people murdered by a far-right terrorist for their own deaths]],<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Bedo |first=Stephanie |url=https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/politics/politician-lashes-out-at-muslims-after-christchurch-shootings-they-are-the-perpetrators/news-story/8e3f11fe73821dc3e65d75432ac76f2e |title=Politician lashes out at Muslims after Christchurch shootings: ‘They are the perpetrators’ |work=News.com.au |date=15 March 2019 |access-date=15 March 2019}}</ref> and delivering speeches to the Senate on a variety of [[Hate speech|important issues]] like [[white genocide]] [[South African farm attacks|in South Africa]]<ref name="guardian_sa">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/26/fraser-anning-claims-that-south-african-farmers-are-at-risk-of-genocide |title=Fraser Anning claims that South African farmers are at risk of genocide |date=26 March 2018 |first=Jason|last=Wilson|website=www.theguardian.com|accessdate=22 September 2018}}</ref><ref name="sbs1">{{cite web |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/white-south-african-farmers-facing-genocide-fraser-anning |title=White South African farmers facing 'genocide': Fraser Anning |date=26 March 2018 |first=James|last=Elton-Pym|website=sbs.com.au |accessdate=22 September 2018}}</ref> and the threat that [[LGBT]]-inclusive anti-[[bullying]] curricula in schools poses to the "white family."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.qnews.com.au/grow-up-senator-fraser-anning-slammed-for-homophobic-rant-in-the-senate/|title=Senator Fraser Anning Slammed For Homophobic Rant {{!}} QNews Magazine|work=QNews Magazine|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920150112/https://www.qnews.com.au/grow-up-senator-fraser-anning-slammed-for-homophobic-rant-in-the-senate/|archive-date=2018-09-20|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref>

Sane, decent folk in Australia and worldwide are horrified by Anning's ann-tics and he's been forcefully condemned and even egged (see above). After being egged, he and his goons, which included fascists [[Neil Erikson]] and Ricky Turner, bravely restrained his teenage (and otherwise unarmed) assailant and heroically choked and jackbooted him while he was down before continuing to argue for relaxed firearm laws so they could continue to practice their brand of reasonable force in self-defence, but with guns. A petition on Change.org calling for his removal from the Senate had 1.4 million signatures as of April 2019.<ref>[https://www.change.org/p/the-prime-minister-remove-fraser-anning-from-parliament Remove Fraser Anning from parliament]</ref> [[stopped clock| Even]] ''[[Pauline Hanson]]'' thinks he's a bit much.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/15/fraser-anning-speech-straight-from-goebbels-handbook-says-pauline-hanson|title=Fraser Anning speech 'straight from Goebbels' handbook', says Pauline Hanson|publisher=''The Guardian Australia''|date=15 August 2018|access-date=15 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815024829/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/15/fraser-anning-speech-straight-from-goebbels-handbook-says-pauline-hanson|archive-date=2018-08-15|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref>

==There's nowhere else to go, but down...==
In April 2019, Anning's new political party, the Conservative National Party, was registered ahead of the federal election in May. Some of the party's policies include the deportation of refugees, a ban on Muslim immigration (how the banning of a religion would be enforced is conveniently left out), opposition to gay marriage, and the relaxation of Australia's legislation regarding firearms<ref>https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/fraser-annings-conservative-national-party-has-entered-the-election-race/news-story/efa3511906609fdfa5e783226e1d90f0
</ref> The party also appears to adhere to the [[conspiracy theory]] of majority-white countries being systematically replaced with Asian, African, and Middle Eastern populations via mass migration,
 
The new party will be fielding 70 candidates for the May 2019 election and, to no surprise, has already attracted loony elements within its ranks. The seat of Oxley in Queensland is being sought by candidate Scott Moerland, a former soldier, member of the [[Rise Up Australia Party]] and key figure in the now-defunct [[Reclaim Australia]] and [[United Patriots Front]] movements. Another candidate for the Conservative Nationals is Shane Van Buren, of the ACT, who has a criminal conviction for assaulting a police officer. 

While Anning and a local candidate were campaigning at Cronulla Beach, Sydney (the exact location of the infamous 2005 Cronulla race riots), on April 26, 2019, a supporter of Anning, 19-year-old Sydney based Neo-Nazi activist Max Towns violently assaulted a camera crew from NewsCorp who were present covering the event<ref>https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/max-towns-violent-teenage-fascist</ref>. He was subsequently arrested and charged with assault, intimidation, and behaving in an offensive manner<ref>https://7news.com.au/news/arrest-after-assault-at-fraser-anning-event-a-month-after-eggboy-incident-c-79503</ref>.   

In the 2019 federal election, Anning lost his Senate seat, and none of the candidates from his party won.<ref>https://www.smh.com.au/federal-election-2019/controversial-right-wing-politician-fraser-anning-booted-from-senate-20190519-p51ovz.html</ref> To echo this sad turn of events, on his official Facebook page, the lowly Anning changed his name to 'Fraser Anning - Former Senator'.

On 23 September 2020, the Conservative National Party was deregistered.<ref>[https://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/party_registration/Deregistered_parties/files/web-notice-to-deregister-fraser-annings-conservative-national-party.pdf Notice of deregistration FRASER ANNING'S CONSERVATIVE NATIONAL PARTY]</ref>

[[File:Fraser Anning gets egged.gif|thumb|This teenager is doing more to fight racism than the Australian Senate.]]

==See also==
*[[Steve King]] — his [[United States|American]] counterpart (arguably one of many).

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