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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Eden Gillespie

‘I am not a Nazi’: Liberal Democrats candidate ‘deeply regrets’ white supremacist Facebook posts

Liberal Democrats candidate Anthony Bull (front left) alongside current One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts at the 2017 “LibertyFest” in Brisbane. Bull says he deeply regrets a Facebook post celebrating the “white power salutes” being given by the people behind him. Roberts says he ‘wholeheartedly rejects all forms of racism’.
Liberal Democrats candidate Anthony Bull (front left) alongside current One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts at the 2017 “LibertyFest” in Brisbane. Bull says he deeply regrets a Facebook post celebrating the “white power salutes” being given by the people behind him. Roberts says he ‘wholeheartedly rejects all forms of racism’. Photograph: Facebook/AYPS

The Liberal Democrats candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane says he “deeply regrets” a history of offensive Facebook posts, including messages that were antisemitic, described Indigenous Australians as “the enemy” and celebrated white supremacist culture.

One photo uploaded by the candidate, Anthony Bull, shows him smiling next to One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts as a group of young men make hand gestures – described by Bull as “White Power salutes” - behind them. Roberts is not making a hand gesture.

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