Alex Antic (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This week, in the media in South Australia, there has been an almighty pile-on on one of our candidates, Carston Woodhouse, who is the candidate for Wright. The media in SA are a little bit like the media nationally—wholly owned by the radical left in this nation. They are effectively a mouthpiece for the Australian Labor Party in South Australia. Not a single bad story against the great premier has ever been written in human history in South Australia, but, today, I thought it was an opportune moment to speak about one newsletter in particular that was sent around by an outlet, which is called InDaily—which I don't like to speak to, because by now, with the six people that are watching this, I've doubled their readership in a matter of seconds.

Today they wrote an article called '"Unelectable": Liberal insider says controversial candidates are not alone'. It's very helpful for a 'Liberal insider', by the way, to be speaking to the left-wing media. I wonder who that could be? But this insider said:

'With friends like Antic and Pasin and their operatives throughout the party, Ashton and her team don't need any enemies.'

That's right; it's my fault that my friends in One Nation over there are scoring in the polls! The guy that is trying to make the Liberal Party take a leaf out of their book is somehow responsible for this. But, in any event, it says I didn't give any comments. I did actually. I was asked for a comment via text at 12.38. At 12.46, I responded, saying, 'Reading your text wasted valuable seconds of my life, and now I am wasting even more by responding.' But apparently that's not good enough.

Let me just say this. This is the party in this country which apparently stands for freedom of thought, worship, speech and association. I haven't read what this guy has said, frankly, because I don't care about anything that's written in the media in South Australia. But I'll say this. If this guy is disendorsed or if he feels compelled to leave, we might as well shut the doors on this election with one week to go.