Headed for the Senate with a host of conspiracist theories

One Nation's Malcolm Roberts -
he's boumd for the Senate and
takes with him a host of
bizarre and troubling theories.

Malcolm Roberts, the Queensland One Nation candidate who seems set to be elected to the Senate, sees the world through the eyes of the archetypal conspiracist. Dark forces move with malign intent behind world events.

Climate science is a conspiracy cooked up by a secretive alliance of leading scientists and scientific bodies, including the CSIRIO and the Bureau of Meteorology that function as the Australian arms of a wider global plot centred on the UN and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Roberts has a background in the mining industry and serves as the project manager of the Galileo Movement, the central denialist organisation in Australia. Its patron is broadcaster Alan Jones, and its panel of advisers is stacked with all of the usual suspects – Gina Reinhart favourite Ian Plimer, blogger Jo Nova, monarchist David Flint and even Lord Monckton. It claims the Sydney PR company Jackson Wells as its media adviser. Jackson Wells lists “reputation management” among its core services.

Read the piece onThe Conversation  by the Professor ofPublic Ethics at the Centre For Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at Charles Sturt University, Clive Hamilton  - “One Nation, Climate Denial and those Jewish Bankers.”