A controversial senator has incited ‘woke clowns’ to criticize him after sharing a series of shocking and unpublishable insults.
Victorian senator Ralph Babet, who was elected in 2022 as part of billionaire Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP), shared a stream from misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate on Monday morning.
“My black got this right,” Babet wrote on social media platform X. “One hundred percent.”
The senator, a former single real estate agent who was born in Mauritius and now earns a base salary of $233,000 after being the only UAP senator elected, doubled down, daring anyone to criticize him.
‘In my house we say ph****t, re***dy ni***r. “We are tired of you waking up the clowns,” he wrote.
‘Cry more. Write an article. Tweet about me. Nobody cares what you think.
Mr Babet’s post was awash with outrage.
‘This guy is a sitting senator in Australia!!!’ one wrote.
Controversial Senator Ralph Babet (left, with Craig Kelly) has incited ‘woke clowns’ to criticize him after sharing unprintable insults.
The senator, a former single real estate agent who was born in Mauritius and now earns a base salary of $233,000 after being the only UAP senator to be elected, doubled down on his offensive, daring anyone to criticize him.
“What a shame”.
Others suggested he was unfit for public office.
“He gets paid $200,000 a year to sit on Twitter, say things like that, and do nothing for the people of Victoria,” one wrote.
Another said: ‘On top of all the obvious problems here, it amazes me when people over 20 operate out of sheer desperation to get reactions from people like this.
“They seem to consider themselves brave people who rush into battle for saying a few bad words.”
Babet later wrote on X: “The chances of me apologizing for anything I said on X are zero.”
Mining magnate and former politician Palmer reportedly spent $100 million on his party’s election campaign, only to see Babet as the only candidate elected.
Babet later wrote on X: “The chances of me apologizing for anything I said on X are zero.”
Babet, who opposes vaccines and has called for ABC to be defunded, has form when it comes to publishing inflammatory opinions.
He recently claimed that “the world is ruled by satanic pedophiles.”
In one of his many posts on
In response, Redbridge pollster Kos Samaras described Babet’s election as “a political accident”.
“The most expensive seat in the Senate and the one least likely to be returned to the Senate when its term has expired,” Samaras wrote.
“The only thing that will be eradicated is his name on the door of a Senate office.”
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Babet and Palmer for comment.