Western Australia (Washington) Independent Rep. Benjamin Let's Dawkins legally changed his name to “Aussie Trump” this week. explained In a protest against “tyranny and systematic corruption of Washington's labor government.”
Re-reporting the name of the lawmaker on the Congress website has been changed to “Austin (Australia) Let's Trump.” He posted a photo of the document showing that he legally changed his name on January 29th. His cries of battle, Posted Wednesday of the #AussietRump hashtag on social media platform X, “Voting Labor! & Drill Baby Drill!”
Dawkins was Originally He is a member of the Labour Party's Western Australia Legislative Council (MLC), but he is I was exiled The party was less than a month after he sat down as he was suspected of 42 domestic violence detention violations from the party in April 2023. He guilty of all the suspicious offences, most of which apparently made a forbidden effort to communicate with his previous partner, but later turned his plea to “innocence.” That was.
Dawkins compared his expulsion from labor with “executions” and was unfairly committed against “in my case, people who have not been found to commit physical or other violence.”
Dawkins has begun to participate One countryA right-sided populist party known technically as “Paulene Hanson's One Nation” (Phoen) in honor of Australian politicians who founded the party in 1997.
Hanson left During the 2002 election fraud scandal, the party dropped out of politics for a while and returned to heading the party in 2013. welcome Dawkins said in February 2024, as the only representative of one country in Western Australia, that his party switch showed “our growing appeal to Australians across the country.”
“He represents the same democratic principles and individual freedoms that are at the heart of a country's spirit and policy. Ben is a born, bred Western Australian, and has first made his community and state. I'll put it,” Hanson said.
“Paulene Hanson never leaves anyone with doubts about what she is thinking. That's an approach I've always preferred to myself,” Dawkins replied happily.
Sadly, that happiness was short-lived like Hanson boot Dawkins on One Nation tickets six months later. Hanson himself declined to comment on the action, but leaders from one other country said they felt Dawkins wasn't fully committed to the party.
“I don't have an unlucky tactile sensation for Ben, but I don't feel that he played to the level the public would expect from the members of the Congress,” he said on the party ticket. said Rod Caddies, the One Nation WA leader who replaced Dawkins.
“I miss the weird sessions, like everyone else does,” Dawkins replied. “Sometimes your time is best, you are most effective and you do what we call emergency council business.
“Can I work hard? Yes, definitely. I can always try harder, but I'm 100% comfortable doing good work,” he said.
Dawkins: “Reluctantly” Resignation From one country he still said that Hanson “he highly regards him as a brave defender of everyday Australians.”
“As an independent candidate, I will continue to have the courage to speak for those who have never been seen,” he promised.
“Mr. Trump.” I said 9news Thursday he hoped the name change would help him maintain his seat in Western Australia March 8th Election. He praised other Trump said he would “happily become a small part of that” in order to “rewind the left-wing nonsense.”
Washington state labor politicians have changed the name “Australian Trump” as a “boy” and a “attention seeker” stunt.
“I don't know how low he'll be,” WA Premier Roger Cook said.
Washington State Political Analyst Peter Kennedy I said Australia's ABC said the change in the name of Trump was a “great propaganda stunt” for independent politicians who only need a small percentage of highly energised voters to win seats. It's news.
“We don't need the majority of votes to get an election to the Senate, less than 3% of votes,” Kennedy pointed out. “If he can get it through this gimmick, it will be a success for him.”
Some local voters who spoke to ABC sounded less enthusiastic about Australia's Trump debut, calling the name change “splendid” and “very disgusting.”
“Catchy is always a good way,” he retorted Washington resident Shelley Watson. “The slogan is a good slogan.”
