Fraser Anning recycles WA candidate who says single mothers are 'lazy and ugly'

Fraser Anning's lead senate candidate in WA is a recycled One Nation hopeful who once said single mothers were "too lazy to attract and hold a mate" and should lose government funding.

David Archibald, who stood against former foreign minister Julie Bishop in 2016 for the Australian Liberty Alliance before trying his luck for One Nation in the Pilbara at the last state election, emerged on Senator Anning's upper house ticket in WA when nominations were declared on Wednesday.

Senator Fraser Anning is fielding candidates for the Senate in WA, along with three lower house seats.Credit: AAP Image/Kelly Barnes

In a 2015 essay the geologist and climate change sceptic urged the government to stop funding "lifestyles" such as single motherhood and disability pensioners.

"The first that springs to mind is single motherhood," Mr Archibald wrote in Quadrant.

"These are women too lazy to attract and hold a mate, undoing the work of possibly three million years of evolutionary pressure.

Senate candidate David Archibald called single mums "too lazy to attract and hold a mate".Credit: YouTube/mmattjanet

"This will result in a rapid rise in the portion of the population that is lazy and ugly."

Mr Archibald also took aim at childcare funding, spending on Indigenous affairs and said disability pensioners who could "drive cars, bash police and each other, go fishing" should lose their payments.

"We often hear about disability pensioners because their active lifestyle resulted in a contretemps with another party, most recently the recipients of disability payments who have overcome their infirmities to take up arms against civilisation in Syria and Iraq," he said.

Mr Archibald said childcare was also a lifestyle choice which should not be funded by the government.

"Mothers who do work are, in effect, cross-subsidising those who also leave their children to the care of strangers," he said.

"If society wishes to encourage childbearing, it should reward that with tax rebates to the childbearing pair and leave it at that."

In another Quadrant essay, Mr Archibald criticised gay marriage, saying homosexuality was an "acceptable loss, in evolutionary terms, so that the rest of the males can be more male-like".

He said gay marriage would "lead to a bitter harvest of broken marriages and abandoned children if the notion of marriage is cheapened".

In an interview reported by The Australian during the 2017 WA state election, Mr Archabald levelled personal insults at WA political figures, calling Attorney General Christain Porter "a bulls--t artist", Ms Bishop a "dripping-wet leftie" and former Premier Colin Barnett a "socialist".

He reiterated his views on single mothers, who he said were "a drag on society".

More recently, Mr Archibald said in a February blog post he was joining Senator Anning's cause to "make Australia the earthly paradise that it should be".

"If anyone in the Australian Parliament has moral authority it is Senator Fraser Anning," he said.

In March, Senator Anning was repudiated by politicians across the political spectrum for linking Muslim immigration to the terror attack carried out at two mosques in New Zealand by suspected far-right extremists.

Earlier this month, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to censure Senator Anning for his comments.

Mr Achibald was contacted for comment.