SA POLITICS:

ADELAIDE: Former senator, Cory Bernardi, (main picture) says as the lead candidate for One Nation in the upcoming South Australian election he will focus on the issues and policies that are of vital concern to the state’s voters.

Mr Bernardi will be the lead upper-house candidate for Senator Pauline Hanson’s far right-wing party at the 21 March SA poll.

The former Liberal Party senator turned Australian Conservatives founder turned One Nation candidate, told a news conference that South Australians were seeking consistency in their political leaders.

“I have always known the issues that South Australians are very concerned about and I will be putting those issues front and centre – albeit the centre of the far right,” Mr Bernardi told reporters.

“I have joined One Nation because my old party, or at least the one before my other old party, has not been focussing on the issues that most concern voters.

“I think my political career shows that I will focus on those issues. For instance I am very much in favour of nuclear power – just one issue that’s top of the list as far as voters go, as the last federal election proved.

“And I’m anti-abortion which I know is the right position, I mean far-right position, which will get me votes, especially from men and far-right Christians who really do speak for all of us.

“The same goes for banning the wearing of burqas in public. I fully back Pauline Hanson’s ongoing efforts to put this vital issue front and centre on One Nation’s policy agenda.

“If elected I will join her in those efforts and I will have no hesitation in taking direct action to address voter concerns by wearing a burqa into the South Australian upper house.

“Nobody else will do that, but I will, and I think that says a lot about me and my candidacy.”

Mr Bernardi said he would continue to campaign against same-sex marriage laws which, when they were introduced a decade ago, he predicted would legalise polygamy and bestiality.

Mr Bernardi grew agitated when asked if he were merely mimicking divisive Donald Trump-style political tactics by raising such colourful claims such as legalised bestiality when there existed no evidence to support them.

“Of course there’s no evidence,” he conceded, before adding: “They’ve destroyed the evidence –  they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats.”

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