Sunday 20 November 2022 12:50 AM Victorian election Liberal Narre Warren North candidate Timothy Dragan ... trends now
A Victorian Liberal candidate called Indigenous land rights 'bollocks' and said that if everything has to be Aboriginal we might as well 'get our camping chairs and live in the desert'.
Timothy Dragan also said in leaked recording that he would ban abortion, which he argued was 'murder', and would cross the floor to vote down climate change bills.
Mr Dragan, who is contesting the traditionally safe Labor seat of Narre Warren North in Melbourne's south-east, claimed people in his electorate 'do not care about climate change'.
Liberal Victorian state election candidate Tim Dragan has been recorded expressing ultra-conservative views, including that land rights are 'bollocks' and that abortion is murder
He said if the Liberals wanted 'clean' energy, then nuclear was a better option and its waste could be dumped in the Northern Territory Outback, 'near Alice Springs'.
Mr Dragan also hit out at fellow Liberal Brad Battin, who holds the neighbouring seat of Berwick, calling him a 'prick' and an 'egotist'.
He accused Mr Battin of 'making up crap' by calling him a 'religious nut'.
The recording of Mr Dragan's remarks was taken during a conversation outside an early voting centre on Tuesday in his electorate on Tuesday and sent to The Age.
Mr Dragan said there was no such thing as 'traditional Australians' because Australia as a nation is a 'post-colonial concept'.
'We won this land fair and square,' he said.
Liberal opposition leader Matthew Guy faces pressure from the Teals, who have taken votes off the Liberals federally by saying the party has moved too far to the right
'Everything that you find now, all these institutions, even this government thing they got, it's European – it's not bloody Aboriginal.
'If we're going to go by what's Aboriginal, we might as well abolish everything, get our camping chairs and live in the desert.'
He argued the settlers won Australia 'fair and square' and that giving it back to Aboriginals would be like giving Britain back to the Vikings or Romania giving Transylvania back to the Hungarians, which showed it was 'absolute bollocks'.
The Anglo-Saxons were in Britain well before the Vikings arrived and eventually pushed out the Norse invaders, until being
