Real estate agent Ralph Babet takes seat for United Australia party after it spent an estimated $180m in past two elections
The AEC earlier announced the Coalition’s Marise Payne, Ross Cadell and Jim Molan, Labor’s Deb O’Neill and Jenny McAllister, and the Greens’ David Shoebridge as senators for New South Wales.
In a video of a January campaign speech, posted to the Babet Brothers’ YouTube channel, Babet called Canberra “horrible” and “a dive”. Babet has deleted a Twitter account he used to maintain until days before the 22 May election, but archived copies of his tweets – accessed through internet archive Wayback Machine – reveal past claims including “the ideology of the greens is cancerous to a free and open society.”
Several posts on Babet’s Facebook page raise concerns about the World Economic Forum and its “Great Reset” initiative, a popular talking point among rightwing groups which promote conspiracy theories that it is linked to the rise of a worldwide authoritarian government. In his statement, Palmer claimed “Australia is in danger of becoming a banana republic” and said the UAP was “committed to holding Labor and the Liberals accountable for their actions”.
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