# William Fraser Anning

William Fraser Anning (14 OCT 1949); child of William Henry Anning and Margaret Edey Wallace Byrne; born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

**Lifespan:** 14 OCT 1949 – ?

## Parents
- [William Henry Anning](/p/william-henry-anning-59456.md) (father)
- [Margaret Edey Wallace Byrne](/p/margaret-edey-wallace-byrne-59457.md) (mother)

## Partners
- _unknown partner_

## Timeline
- 14 OCT 1949 — **Born** at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- FROM 1969 TO 1973 — **Military service, CMF 49th Battalion** — Served with the 49th Battalion of the Citizen Military Forces from 1969 to 1973.
- 1998 — **Candidate for Fairfax, House of Representatives** at Queensland, Australia — Stood as a One Nation candidate for the Queensland division of Fairfax at the 1998 federal election. He was not elected.
- 2016 — **Candidate, Senate for Queensland (Pauline Hanson's One Nation)** at Queensland, Australia — Stood third on the Pauline Hanson's One Nation Senate ticket in Queensland at the 2016 federal election and received 19 below-the-line first-preference votes. One Nation elected two Queensland senators at that election, Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts. In October 2017 the Court of Disputed Returns ruled Roberts ineligible for failing to renounce his British citizenship, and on 10 November 2017 Anning was declared elected in Roberts's place following a special recount.
- FROM 10 NOV 2017 TO 30 JUN 2019 — **Senator for Queensland** at Queensland, Australia — Declared elected on 10 November 2017 as a Senator for Queensland by the High Court of Australia, filling the place of M Roberts, who had been disqualified under section 44(i) of the Constitution. Served in the 45th Parliament. Defeated at the 2019 general elections; his term ended on 30 June 2019.
- FROM 10 NOV 2017 TO 15 JAN 2018 — **Senate party: Pauline Hanson's One Nation** at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia — Sat in the Senate as a member of Pauline Hanson's One Nation from 10 November 2017 to 15 January 2018.
- 13 NOV 2017 — **Sworn in as Senator for Queensland** at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia — Sworn in as a Senator for Queensland on 13 November 2017, vouched for by Cory Bernardi (Australian Conservatives) and David Leyonhjelm (Liberal Democrats). Later the same day One Nation leader Pauline Hanson issued a media release saying he had abandoned the party to sit as an independent. He advised the President of the Senate that he would sit as an independent on 15 January 2018.
- FROM 15 JAN 2018 TO 4 JUN 2018 — **Senate party: Independent** at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia — Sat in the Senate as an Independent from 15 January 2018 to 4 June 2018.
- FROM 4 JUN 2018 TO 26 NOV 2018 — **Senate party: Katter's Australian Party** at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia — Sat in the Senate as a member of Katter's Australian Party from 4 June 2018 to 26 November 2018.
- 14 AUG 2018 — **First speech in the Senate** at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia — Delivered his first speech in the Senate on 14 August 2018. In it he called for a plebiscite to reintroduce the White Australia Policy, particularly as regards excluding Muslims, and criticised the Safe Schools Coalition of Australia. The speech included a reference to a "final solution", the phrase used by the Nazi Party for the Holocaust.
- OCT 2018 — **Expulsion from Katter's Australian Party** — Expelled from Katter's Australian Party, which he had joined on 4 June 2018 as its first senator, over his distinction between European and non-European migration in proposed legislation. He sat as an independent for the remainder of his term.
- FROM 26 NOV 2018 TO 30 JUN 2019 — **Senate party: Independent** at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia — Sat in the Senate as an Independent from 26 November 2018 until the end of his term on 30 June 2019. The individuals endpoint records his party at the close of service as "Independent".
- 2019 — **Candidate, Senate for Queensland, 2019 federal election** at Queensland, Australia — Contested the Queensland Senate election of 2019 at the head of his own party's ticket. Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party received 37,184 first-preference votes in Queensland, 1.28 per cent of the formal Senate vote. He was not re-elected and his term ended on 30 June 2019.
- FROM 2 APR 2019 TO 23 SEP 2020 — **Founder and leader, Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party** — Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party was entered in the Commonwealth Register of Political Parties as a parliamentary party on 2 April 2019, on the strength of his own declaration of membership as the sitting Independent Senator for Queensland; the application had been received by the Australian Electoral Commission on 23 November 2018 and attracted eleven written objections. The party was deregistered on 23 September 2020 for failing to respond to a notice under section 137(1) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
- 3 APR 2019 — **Censured by the Senate** at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia — Censured by the Senate on 3 April 2019 on a motion moved by Senator Mathias Cormann on his own behalf and on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Penny Wong, over comments he made about the Christchurch mosque attacks of 15 March 2019. The motion was agreed to.
- 16 MAR 2020 — **Bankruptcy** — The Federal Court of Australia made an order winding up his estate on 16 March 2020, in a dispute with Adelaide and Bendigo Bank over a debt of $185,000 arising from an investment in a failed agribusiness scheme. The date of the bankruptcy was set at 15 July 2019.
- **Residence** at Richmond, Queensland, Australia — Grew up at Wetherby Station, one of the Anning family's pastoral properties near Richmond in north-west Queensland. The family's Queensland pastoral holdings began with Reedy Springs, north of Hughenden, established in 1862 by Charles Cumming Stone Anning and several of his sons, from which the nearby properties of Chudleigh Park, Mount Sturgeon, Charlotte Plains and Cargoon were formed.
- **Occupation (Grazier)** — Recorded by the parliamentary handbook as a grazier. No dates are given.
- **Occupation (Hotelier)** — Recorded by the parliamentary handbook as a hotelier. No dates are given.
- **Occupation (Aircraft manufacturer)** — Recorded by the parliamentary handbook as an aircraft manufacturer. No dates are given.
- **Education (Agricultural College Brisbane)** at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — Graduated Diploma in Agriculture at the Agricultural College, Brisbane. The handbook records no date. His secondary school is recorded as De La Salle College.

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