One Nation ‘one of the gayest’ political parties: Joyce
Source: ABC TV
MP Barnaby Joyce has distanced One Nation from a candidate who said LGBTQI people are mentally ill, claiming it is instead one of “the gayest parties in Australia”.
The party’s candidate for Western Australia’s upper house at the 2025 election, Parminder Singh, was revealed to have made several anti-gay comments in a video on social media, including that animals were smarter than humans because they were not gay.
Singh, who was third on One Nation’s upper house ticket at the state election, has been removed from One Nation’s website, after the video became public.
Joyce said Singh’s comments did not represent One Nation.
“People are allowed to have views, of course, but they’ve got to be within the Australian guardrails,” he told ABC TV on Wednesday.
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“I don’t want to say it but I think we’re one of the gayest parties in Australia.”
Host Patricia Karvelas quipped: “Are you trying to come out to me Barnaby Joyce?” to which he responded, “No, I don’t have to”.
Joyce said he did not share Singh’s views.
“He obviously doesn’t know One Nation because we’ve got a surprise for him. We have quite a large proportion of gay people, and they’re all the same: They don’t want to be glorified. They don’t want to be vilified,” he said.
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Joyce said that, “quite frankly, [Singh] obviously hasn’t been around farms.”
Karvelas asked Joyce what he meant by that.
“You mean, in terms of gay animals?” she said.
“Yep,” Joyce said.
He said One Nation would have teething issues with its vetting processes as it grew.
“When something’s growing like that, you’re going to have growing pains, and you’re going to have your internal resources won’t be able to keep up with the membership as it goes and the applicants as they go,” Joyce said.
-with AAP
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