It's been yet another not-quite-normal 24 hours for One Nation after a candidate claimed that the LGBT community was using Nazi-inspired mind control techniques to sway the population in favour of same-sex marriage... now the nonsense has made it into Hansard.
Labor's Tony Burke used Question Time to ask the government about One Nation WA candidate Michelle Meyers, who wrote on Facebook that gay people are adopting techniques used by the Nazis and Soviets to convince others to accept marriage equality.
Burke asked prime minister Malcolm Turnbull about it, in light of the Liberal Party's preference deal with One Nation in Western Australia, and the defence of Pauline Hanson on Sunday by industry minister Arthur Sinodinos on ABC's Insiders program:
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to his early answers, he defended his industry minister describing One Nation as more sophisticated. One Nation in Western Australia has said the gay community has developed a covert mind control project to campaign for marriage equality, using the strategies developed by the Nazis and the Soviets. How long can the Turnbull government continue to make excuses for One Nation?
Turnbull laughed. This was probably the first time he'd confronted the pressing issue of LGBT Nazi mind control.
And then he pointed to Labor's preference arrangements with the Greens.
"[The Greens party advocates] legalising drugs of addiction; it advocates abandoning the US alliance; it advocates de-industrialising Australia; and I don't believe the Labor Party agrees with any of those policies," Turnbull said.
People around the world were alerted to "gay Nazi mind control" being raised in the Aussie parliament.
It's election year here in New Zealand and I'm yet to see anything remotely close to #gaynazimindcontrol pop up. #auspol gets everything!
It was quite a time.
Australian politics. Where #GayNaziMindControl is part of the daily discourse.
Earlier, Greens senator Scott Ludlam became the first person in the history of Twitter to write the hashtag "#GayNaziMindControl".
Colin Barnett, you now own this #GayNaziMindControl candidate c/- One Nation. How's that going?… https://t.co/8iTDfjuoli
The whole situation has people a little perplexed.
Bitch I can't even use Nazi-Style Mind Control Tactics to get a date wtf are you talking about https://t.co/NcbWm8v7pg
One Nation is yet to comment on Meyers' gay mind control beliefs. The WA election is next month.