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March 5, 2019
Independent Senator Fraser Anning will be bringing his “drought-proofing Queensland” tour to Kingaroy on Saturday.
Senator Anning has been serving as a Federal Senator since November 2017.
He assumed the position after a recount triggered by the removal of One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts, who was found to be ineligible to sit due to his citizenship status.
Senator Anning was in third spot behind Senator Roberts on the One Nation ticket at the 2016 Federal election and received 19 first preference votes.
However, despite standing on the One Nation ticket, Senator Anning announced he would sit as an Independent and not join the party in the Senate.
In June last year, Senator Anning joined Katter’s Australian Party but was expelled in October and is now sitting again as in Independent.
During his visit to Kingaroy, Senator Anning will be discussing the Bradfield Scheme, first proposed in the 1930s, to irrigate inland Queensland.
Senator Anning’s version would divert flows from the Walsh, Tate, Einasleigh and Gilbert rivers to Richmond and extend the Burdekin Dam wall.
His views have provoked controversy at times, including his opposition to same-sex marriage, the United Nations and foreign aid; calling for a halt to all immigration; and pushing for the deportation of refugees.
Last September, Senator Anning tweeted: “In critical theory, ethnic and religious minorities, radical feminists, sexual deviants, Third World immigrants and antisocial criminals could take the place of the proletariat to create a post-communist revolution, deconstructing traditional values and the white family.”
Earlier this week he wrote: “We are one election away from open borders, increased terrorism, socialism, gun confiscation, sharia law and a Godless nation.”
As he has been travelling around the country, Senator Anning has been launching local branches of a proposed new political party, “Fraser Anning’s Conservative National Party”.
“Fraser Anning’s Conservative National Party commits itself to return Australia to the predominantly European Christian nation that our Founding Fathers intended us to become. To reconsecrate our nation so that the crimson thread of kinship may once again run through us all,” he wrote on Twitter last month.
Senator Anning’s forum will be at the Commercial Hotel in Glendon Street, Kingaroy, from 1:00pm on Saturday.
