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🅆Fraser AnningSection Early life and family historySecondary
Anning grew up in north-west Queensland on Wetherby Station, one of the Anning family's pastoral properties near the town of Richmond. He is a direct descendant of Charles Cumming Stone Anning, a pastoral squatter who immigrated to the Australian colonies in the mid-19th century to acquire landholdings. Charles and several of his sons established the Reedy Springs property north of Hughenden in 1862, and soon expanded their claims by forming the nearby properties of Chudleigh Park, Mount Sturgeon, Charlotte Plains and Cargoon.
Wetherby Station is independently confirmed by the 1949 Courier-Mail birth notice, which gives the parents' address as "Wetherby" Station, Richmond. Place set to Richmond, Queensland (#875); no place row exists for Wetherby Station itself.
In 1998, Anning stood as a One Nation candidate for the lower house division of Fairfax at that year's federal election.
Wikipedia cites an ABC News profile of 7 November 2017 for this. The AEC historical results page for Fairfax 1998 returned HTTP 404 to this session, so no primary result could be quoted; the event is dated to the year only and the statement that he was not elected follows from his never having sat in the House of Representatives (APH handbook record of service, cited in proposal 203, shows Senate service only).
Anning was third on the One Nation senate ticket in Queensland at the 2016 federal election. He gained just 19 below-the-line first-preference votes under the optional preferential voting system. Due to its high statewide count, One Nation elected two senators in Queensland at the 2016 election - party leader Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts. In October 2017, during the parliamentary eligibility crisis, the Court of Disputed Returns ruled Roberts was ineligible to be elected to the Senate due to his failure to renounce his British citizenship. The following month, on 10 November, Anning was declared elected in place of Roberts following a special recount.
En dash in the original replaced with a hyphen. The recount and the 10 November 2017 declaration are independently in the APH record of service cited in proposal 203; this citation supplies the preceding candidacy, the 19 below-the-line votes and the disqualification that produced the vacancy. Wikipedia's footnotes here are a Sydney Morning Herald report of 26 September 2017 and ABC News of 27 October 2017, neither of which was fetched in this session.
Upon his swearing in to the Senate on 13 November 2017, Anning was vouched for (a parliamentary custom indicating that the new member is who he claims to be) by two crossbenchers from other parties: Cory Bernardi (Australian Conservatives) and David Leyonhjelm (Liberal Democrats). Later on the same day, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson issued a media release saying that Anning had "abandoned" the party to sit as an independent "until something else comes along". ... On 15 January 2018, Anning advised the Senate President that he would henceforth sit as an independent
Two passages from the same section, joined with an ellipsis. Sources differ on when the One Nation affiliation ended: the APH handbook (proposal 203) records the One Nation period as running to 15 January 2018, which is the date he formally advised the Senate President; Hanson's announcement was on 13 November 2017. Wikipedia itself notes that on 16 November 2017 he "remained a One Nation senator in the eyes of the Senate". The official record has been followed for the party dates in 203 and is not contradicted here.
On 14 August 2018, Anning delivered his maiden speech to the Senate. In it, he called for a plebiscite to reintroduce the White Australia Policy, especially with regard to excluding Muslims. Anning went on to criticise the Safe Schools Coalition of Australia, as "gender fluidity garbage" and "cultural Marxism". ... His speech included a reference to a "final solution"-the phrase used by the Nazi Party to refer to the preparation and execution of the Holocaust,
Two passages joined with an ellipsis; an em dash replaced with a hyphen. Recorded as a dated parliamentary event, in the source's own words. The underlying Hansard (parlinfo Id chamber/hansards/3cee6e8f-15b4-468c-91dd-05ded6631e43/0136) returned HTTP 403 to this session and was not quoted.
On 4 June 2018 Anning joined Katter's Australian Party, becoming the party's first senator. ... However, Anning was expelled from Katter's Australia Party two months later for distinguishing between "European" and "Non-European" migration in legislation, as this was viewed by the party as bigotry against Sikhs and Pacific Islanders.
Two passages joined with an ellipsis. Wikipedia gives no exact expulsion date; its footnote is a Guardian report dated 25 October 2018, which was not fetched, so the event is dated to October 2018 only. The APH handbook (proposal 203) records the Katter's Australian Party period as ending 26 November 2018, a month later - the parliamentary record follows the formal notification, not the expulsion. Both dates are left standing; neither has been overwritten.
🅆Fraser AnningSection Conservative National PartySecondary
Corroborates the outcome. The end of his term, 30 June 2019, is from the APH record of service cited in proposal 203. The event is dated to the year because neither quoted source states the polling day.
🅆Fraser AnningSection Bankruptcy and further developmentsSecondary
In Anning's absence, the Federal Court of Australia handed down an order winding up his estate on 16 March 2020, as part of an ongoing dispute with Adelaide and Bendigo Bank, which was chasing a debt of $185,000 related to Mr Anning's investment in a failed agribusiness scheme. The date of his bankruptcy was set to 15 July 2019.
Wikipedia's footnote here is a VICE report of 17 March 2020, which was not fetched in this session, so this rests on Wikipedia alone at quality 2. A related earlier action by the same bank is mentioned in the article's One Nation section as having been withdrawn before he entered the Senate; the two should not be conflated. No Federal Court file number was found.