Fraser Anning to form Conservative Nationals party

Controversial Queensland senator Fraser Anning has applied to register the Conservative National Party with the AEC.

Queensland Senator Fraser Anning is forming his own party, the Conservative Nationals. Picture: AAP

Controversial Queensland senator Fraser Anning is forming a new party called the Conservative Nationals.

The former One Nation member, who received just 19 first preference votes at the 2016 election, has applied to register his party with the Australian Electoral Commission.

The full name of the proposed party is Fraser Anning’s Conservative National Party, which would be abbreviated to the Conservative Nationals.

Senator Anning was widely criticised on the weekend — including by Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten — for billing taxpayers nearly $3000 to attend a rally with far-right extremists.

Senator Anning, who has called for a “final solution” to immigration problems, stood alongside convicted criminal and Nazi sympathiser Blair Cotterall to protest against Sudanese immigration.

He was kicked out of Bob Katter’s Australia Party in December for his inflammatory rhetoric on race, including advocating a ban on Muslim immigration.

He entered the Senate as a One Nation senator in November 2017, replacing Malcolm Roberts who was embroiled in the citizenship crisis, but left Pauline Hanson’s party in his first day in parliament.