Likely senator dodges questions about kangaroo poo fight video

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Thanks to the quirks of minor party preferences some unconventional candidates appear to be headed for the upper house in Canberra. With some of these likely senators dodging the media, journalists are left to piece together their backgrounds from the scraps available online.

Ricky Muir, the likely Victorian senator from the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party, who would take his place in July next year, appears to have a more colourful past than most.

In a video taken from his YouTube account, which was made private soon after the election on Saturday night, Mr Muir appears to be filmed taking part in a backyard kangaroo faeces fight.

The video, titled "Family Fight in Australia", appears to depict the likely senator, who sports a thick moustache and goatee, running around a garden with his friends, who are hurling kangaroo faeces and laughing hysterically.

Ricky Muir from the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party could win a Senate seat for Victoria.

We know it is kangaroo faeces because the person holding the video camera picks up a brown pellet, examines it, and says: "This is kangaroo poo. Yum yum."

In another scene in the video, a man who bears a striking resemblance to Mr Muir, perches on the roof of a four-wheel drive and spits in the direction of the camera.

At yet another point, the same man creeps up behind his friend and pulls down the man's pants. Later in the video, he strikes his friend with jousting sticks.

Comment was sought from Mr Muir, but the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party's media spokesman Keith Littler said Mr Muir would not be available to talk at all on Monday.

Asked whether Mr Muir denied taking part in the faeces-throwing video, Mr Littler said: "No, he's just not available".

Would the likely senator respond at all?

"What's the right of response anyway?" Mr Littler said. "People have fun in their lives. What's the big deal?"

Little is known about Mr Muir, who is likely to become a senator despite gaining a tiny proportion of votes, due to the tight exchange of preferences between minor parties.

If predictions are correct, the new Senate will likely comprise the NSW Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm, former rugby league legend Glenn "The Brick With Eyes" Lazarus (Palmer United Party), engineer and former West Australian gridiron representative Wayne Dropulich (Australian Sports Party), and South Australian Family First stalwart Bob Day as Senate neophyte.

Mr Muir's YouTube account can no longer be accessed, but a reader downloaded and sent Fairfax Media four of the videos on the website: 'Beer Batter for Dummies', 'Parenting is fun, view from a Father,' and 'Fixed the 4x4 for cheap, sharing the secret'.

The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party website says its core values include ''mateship'', small government, lower taxation and ''taking pride in our vehicles''.

''I have owned, maintained and modified a couple of street driven Commodores, nothing magazine worthy but they were safe, reliable and reflected my taste," Mr Muir wrote on Facebook.

"My intention is to help educate the public that we are not hoons out to destroy the environment".

In May 2011, when Osama bin Laden was killed, Mr Muir tweeted: ''Media is reporting that the person who orfered [sic] the 911 terror attacks is dead . . . what a load of shit, george bush is still alive!''

The vote count for the Senate will not be finalised for days.