Yep, strait-laced, sick conservative sense of humor that.
"“I agree they should be rehomed, into their inner-city apartments so they can nibble away at their food and their feet at night and scratch their children at night...."
And that's from the present leader of our National Party:
The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is an Australian political party. Traditionally representing graziers, farmers, and rural voters generally, it began as the Australian Country Party in 1920 at a federal level. It later adopted the name National Country Party in 1975, before taking its current name in 1982.
Federally, and in New South Wales, and to an extent in Victoria and historically in Western Australia, it has in government been the minor party in a centre-right Coalition with the Liberal Party of Australia, and its leader has usually served as Deputy Prime Minister. In Opposition the Coalition was usually maintained, but even otherwise the party still generally continued to work in co-operation with the Liberal Party of Australia (as had their predecessors the Nationalist Party of Australia and United Australia Party).
Has been acting PM while Morrison has been/is? overseas. Michael McCormack who looks a bit like Pence
and generally holds typical conservative attitudes on so-called controversial subjects
Anti-gay stance
In 1993, McCormack published a controversial editorial in which he blamed homosexuality for AIDS and criticised pride parades. He wrote that "a week never goes by anymore that homosexuals and their sordid behaviour don't become further entrenched in society [...] unfortunately gays are here and, if the disease their unnatural acts helped spread doesn't wipe out humanity, they’re here to stay". He asked "how can these people call for rights when they're responsible for the greatest medical dilemma known to man – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?"
The article was the subject of three complaints to the Australian Press Council, though none was upheld.[29] In further editorials from the same period he said "I’m not sorry, why should I be?" about his views, and branded himself "homophobic".[30] McCormack subsequently wrote a second editorial apologising for the first.[31] His remarks resurfaced when he embarked on a career in politics, and he issued further apologies in 2010 and 2017, stating that he had "grown and learnt not only to tolerate, but to accept all people regardless of their sexual orientation or any other trait or feature which makes each of us different and unique".[32][33] Despite his apologies, the controversy resurfaced after he became Deputy Prime Minister.[34]
Advocate for corporal punishment
In other editorials, he called for the return of caning in high schools, saying "there is nothing wrong, in my opinion, with students [...] being given a 'stinging reminder' about how to conduct themselves", compared women's soccer to an "egg and spoon race", and advocated the death penalty.
When asked for comment by The Guardian, he said that "editorial views expressed more than 25 years ago in no way reflect how my views and community views have changed since publication [...] as people get older and start families, and grow as members of their community it is completely reasonable their views change over time"[30]
Pacific Islands comments
In August 2019, McCormack was Acting Prime Minister while the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, was at a Pacific Islands Forum. Morrison was being criticised by Pacific Islands leaders for Australia's contribution to global warming and rising sea levels, which threatened their low-lying territories. McCormack assured an Australian audience: "They’ll continue to survive because many of their workers come here and pick our fruit".[35]
Pork-barreling
In January 2020, McCormack's deputy leader Bridget McKenzie resigned her ministerial post after she admitted to having breached the ministerial code of conduct[36][37] and widespread accusations of pork barrelling.[38]
It was subsequently revealed that regional infrastructure grants program administered by McCormack in the months leading up to the 2019 federal election awarded 94 per cent of its grants to electorates held or targeted by the Coalition.[39]
Coronavirus
In September 2020, McCormack was forced to backtrack an opinion attributing Victoria's second COVID-19 outbreak to a Black Lives Matter protest in Melbourne as a panellist on the Q+A program. When he was told there was lack of evidence regarding this by host Hamish Macdonald, McCormack stated that he'll "accept that but people shouldn't be protesting".[40] The Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria) had confirmed that no positive cases of COVID-19 came from the protest in June 2020.[41]
US Capitol Hill Storming 2021
In January 2021, McCormack was criticised for comparing the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump to Black Lives Matter protesters saying, "Any form of protest, whether it’s a protest over racial riots or indeed what we’ve seen on Capitol Hill in recent days, is condemned and is abhorred.” [42] McCormack's statement was criticized by Amnesty International and the Opposition. A spokesperson for McCormack later said, "Any form of violence should be condemned."[43]
I see just now the he is described as an agrarian socialist. Guess that's because they are in favor of government subsidy for rural industry. On that note it's interesting Australian farmers may even be the least subsidized farmers of developed nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McCormack_(Australian_politician)
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