The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party's Victorian Senate Candidate Ricky Muir, is likely to pick up a seat, despite initiatiing a kangaroo poo fight on video.
THE reality of a new government is setting in and it looks like Prime Minister Tony Abbott will have to deal with a range of out-there senators.
Votes are still being counted but candidates from minor parties including the Australian Sports Party, the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party, Palmer United Party and Family First are likely to pick up senate seats.
The Senate will be finalised in about two weeks but as it stands here are the people who are likely to represent us for the next six years.
The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party's Victorian Senate Candidate Ricky Muir, who is likely to pick up a seat. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
Ricky Muir - Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party
One week ago Ricky Muir updated his Facebook profile picture to "Vote 1 Senate AMEP" and the first comment was: "Wtf you a politician now".
The AMEP candidate, who is likely to pick up a Senate seat in Victoria, jokes that George Bush ordered the September 11 attacks and likes to post online about Chuck Norris.
Pro-gun Senator-elect David Leyonhjelm, from the Liberal Democratic Party. Picture: Nikki Short
This screenshot from Ricky Muir's Facebook page is being shared on Twitter. Source: Supplied
The unemployed father-of-five also jokes about prostitutes - comparing them with buying a Ford.
A trawl through Mr Muir's public Facebook page reveals that Mr Muir, who his family says is 32, is an unlikely politician.
He defends his weekend four-wheel drive bush-bashing as being good for the environment.
"There is a misconception amongst the community that we modify our four wheel drives to tear up the bush, this is not the truth," he wrote.
"We put in lift kits, larger tyres, diff locks, winches etc. all as traction aids so we can drive challenging sections of track being able to maintain traction.
"Modifications also allow us to access remote parts of our country and return home safely no matter what Mother Nature may throw at us, therefor minimising our impact on the environment."
Mr Muir has failed to answer his phone today and his Australian Motoring Enthusiast party spokesman Keith Littler has also failed to answer his mobile.
One of his favourite YouTube videos is "Show Me Your Genitals" which starts with the lyrics: "Women are stupid and I don't respect them, that's right I just have sex with them."
Mr Muir also posted a video on YouTube of himself having a backyard kangaroo poo fight, Fairfax reports. It has now been removed from his account.
David Leyonhjelm - Liberal Democrats
Self-described "senator for the donkeys" (his name appeared first on the NSW Senate ballot paper) is staunchly pro-gun.
David Leyonhjelm is likely to pick up a NSW senate seat due to a combination of preference deals, donkey votes and the fact voters mistook his Liberal Democrat party for the Liberals.
Mr Leyonhjelm says it is "objective fact" last year's Sandy Hook massacre could have been prevented if teachers had guns, and is advocating for a new approach to Sydney's gun crime problem which involves giving people licences to carry weapons.
"What happens is that criminals don't know who's carrying a gun and they're very wary of using a gun themselves because they don't know who's going to shoot back at them," the ABC reported him as saying.
"In actual fact it's a massive deterrent. You don't make a safer society by taking the guns off the good guys and leaving the bad guys to have the guns."
Mr Leyonhjelm, a former Liberal Party member, resigned from the party because he disagreed with John Howard's gun buyback policy implemented after the Port Arthur massacre.
"I thought it was a disgraceful attack on law abiding people who had committed nothing wrong," he said.
New Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie of the Palmer United Party at Burnie. Source: News Limited
Jacqui Lambie - Palmer United Party
Former soldier Jacqui Lambie began her Senate campaign as an independent before turning to Clive Palmer because she was running out of money.
"To be honest I was running out of money. I don't lie about that with people. I just didn't have the money like the big players did for advertising," she told AAP.
"I said I'm not getting this far and having it all thrown out because I'm too pig-headed to take somebody else's funding."
Ms Lambie would use her Senate spot to advocate for injured veterans. She is also "fiercely anti-Greens" and against same-sex marriage.
Wayne Dropulich from the Australian Sports Party, who is closing in on a Senate seat in WA. Source: News Limited
Wayne Dropulich - Australian Sports Party
The Australian Sports Party was founded on the principle of increasing healthy living through sport and candidate Wayne Dropulich looks set to take a senate seat in Western Australia.
Mr Dropulich, a civil engineer and former Australian gridiron representative player, said he and his friends came up with the idea for the party earlier this year.
"I think it's going to be a long process of trying to understand exactly what's involved with being in politics," he told ABC radio.
"Obviously this is my first time so there's a lot of things I don't know yet, so we'll work through them as we go and do as best we can to help the people through our party."
Mr Dropulich said preference deals helped him succeed.
"I think probably being an engineer helped me understand what I needed to do," he told The Australian.
"It's very complex; there were 27 different parties and you don't know if they're all going to do as they say to you, (it) being politics."
Glenn Lazarus of the Palmer United Party. Picture: Philip Norrish Source: News Limited
Glenn Lazarus - Palmer United Party
FORMER rugby league prop Glenn Lazarus, who once posed naked with only a brick, looks set to hold a Queensland Senate spot.
Mr Lazarus has described the Palmer United policies - including 15 per cent income tax breaks and making north Queensland an independent state - as "common sense".
Mr Lazarus said polls and experts discounted Palmer United's chances but "Queensland has spoken".
"It reminds me of the Melbourne Storm when we started - they never gave us much chance either, but of course within two years we won a grand final, so the Palmer United Party is certainly surprising a few," he told ABC.
During his career, Mr Lazarus made history as the only player to win three grand finals for three different clubs - Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne. He posed with the brick to promote a brick company.
Bob Day - Family First
Bob Day is a home builder and former National President of the Housing Industry Association.
The Family First party has "Christian heritage" and believes families come first as they are the "fundamental building block of society".
In a live blog with Rockhampton's Morning Bulletin last month Mr Day revealed his opinions on women in the army, climate change and same-sex marriage.
He says his party's top five policies are home ownership, youth employment, strong defence force, government spending (lower taxes) and values-driven political leadership.
Mr Day said Family First opposed same-sex marriage "For the same reason the overwhelming number of parliamentarians (98 to 42) voted against it just a few months ago - same sex relationships are not the same as opposite sex relationships."
On climate change, he says the climate "always changes" and that he has a science background.
"The point is, human emissions of carbon dioxide account for 3 per cent of all emissions, natural emissions (volcanoes etc) account for the other 97 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions. So why is it the 3 per cent that is causing climate change and not the 97 per cent?"
When asked on his position on women in front line combat roles, he replied "Don't like it".
"My army contacts tell me it could unsettle the men. The natural instinct to want to protect them and all that."
Mr Day says the biggest issue is getting families back to the centre of the Australian way of life.
"The main problem as I see it is that most members of parliament these days have never had a real job. They go to university, get a job working for a politician and then become a politician themselves. The results are there for all to see."
The last Family First member to hold a Senate seat was the colourful Steve Fielding, who struggled to spell the word "fiscal", compared same-sex marriage to incest and once turned up to parliament dressed as a giant beer bottle to introduce his party's proposed bottle return scheme.
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