WA One Nation candidate David Archibald ‘naughty’ for ‘lazy’ single mums essay

WA One Nation leader says Pilbara candidate David Archibald won't be dropped for ‘lazy’ single mums essay.

Western Australia’s One Nation leader Colin Tincknell says the party’s candidate for the iron ore seat of Pilbara will not be dropped for writing that single mothers “are women too lazy to attract and hold a mate, undoing the work of possibly three million years of evolutionary pressure”.

Mr Tincknell who is running One Nation’s WA campaign in the lead up to the state election on March 11 said David Archibald was “a bit naughty” in a 2015 Quadrant essay inspired by then Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s description of remote Aboriginal communities as a lifestyle choice.

Mr Tincknell said Mr Archibald probably should not have made the comments in the essay, titled “Lifestyle Choices? Here’s a few more”.

Mr Tincknell said being a single parent — male or female — was “a tough gig” and he would make Federal party leader Pauline Hanson aware of what Mr Archibald had said. But he believed the essay was “a bit tongue in cheek”.

“We want our politicians too politically correct ... It’s not the end of David,” Mr Tincknell told The Australian last night.

An introduction to Mr Archibald’s essay states: “Why focus only on the cost of supporting Aboriginal communities in godforsaken locations when so many other Australians have their impractical and expensive preferences richly subsidised. Be they single mums or “disabled” Islamist firebrands, should the much-taxed rest of us pay for them?”