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About Fraser Anning
- William Fraser Anning (born 14 October 1949) is an Australian politician who was a senator for Queensland from 10 November 2017 to 30 June 2019.
- Third on the One Nation list in the 2016 Federal Election, he was elected to the Senate after a special recount was triggered by the removal of One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts.
- Anning chose not to join One Nation in the Senate, sitting instead as an independent until June 2018, when he joined Katter's Australian Party (KAP) as its first senator.
- Anning was expelled by Bob Katter’s Party in October 2018 for his extremist views on race and immigration.
- Anning sat again as an independent, until registration of Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party was granted in April 2019.
- He failed to get re-elected to the Senate in the 2019 Federal Election, when standing under his own party’s banner. Anning is known for holding far-right nativist and anti-Muslim views, and has been criticised for his use of the Nazi euphemism for the Holocaust, when he proposed a plebiscite to be the "final solution" to "the immigration problem" in his maiden speech.
- Anning also generated controversy for his statements shortly after the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand, in which he blamed the attacks on "the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate".White Rose Society and ABC News and have detailed the white supremacist links of some of Anning’s closest advisers.
- His companions have included convicted criminals such as Neil Erikson and members of the militant white supremacist group True Blue Crew, whose members and supporters have been linked to right-wing terrorism.Anning is currently being pursued by creditors over unpaid debts.
