Senate Censures UAP Senator Ralph Babet Over Offensive Social Media Posts

Reacting to it, Babet took to X and wrote, “Australians will soon be put in prison for words that the authoritarian left deem to be offensive.”

United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0/Parliament of Australia website

United Australia Senator Ralph Babet has been censured by the federal Senate with the backing of both major parties following a social media post containing “racist and homophobic slurs.”

The censure motion moved by Labor Senator Penny Wong passed on Nov. 18, with 46 senators supporting it and 12 opposing—Senators Babet and Lidia Thorpe were not present.