One Nation candidate denies sexist posting about fat women

A One Nation candidate running in a marginal seat appeared to joke that obese women offer good protection in a tsunami and has compared wives to hand grenades.

Former bankrupt developer Malcolm Charlwood stands a chance of taking the Townsville seat of Mundingburra off Labor at this Saturday’s Queensland election. 

The real estate agent, whose main opponent is a woman, has a Facebook page in his name that also features a series of memes that mock women.

However, he insists the posts on the Mal Charlwood Facebook page, promoting his company Blue Fuel Management, weren’t written by him and says he doesn’t endorse those kind of ‘rubbish’ views.

 

Former bankrupt Malcolm Charlwood appears to have controversial opinions on women

‘They’re on a company page of which I’m a shareholder – the company’s in New Zealand,’ he told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday.

‘I don’t do the stuff on the Facebook page. It’s all done by the IT guys in New Zealand. 

‘I’ve been told about it. I haven’t even seen it.’ 

He also insisted he wasn’t bigoted after his Facebook page had a meme insinuating that Muslims were part of a ‘barbaric cult’ that sought to turn Australia into ‘a pile of rocks and goat s***’. 

‘My partner is Indian. How can I be racist?,’ he told Nine News. 

One Nation candidate Malcolm Charlwood insists he's not racist because his partner's Indian

One Nation candidate Malcolm Charlwood insists he’s not racist because his partner’s Indian

One Nation candidate's Facebook  joked an obese woman would make him 'feel safe in a tsunami'

One Nation candidate’s Facebook  joked an obese woman would make him ‘feel safe in a tsunami’

In May, a Facebook page in his name had an image of a worried man with the headline: ‘What does your wife and a hand grenade have in common?

‘Remove the ring and your house is gone.’

Last year, it shared another joke about women next to an image of an obese female on top of a man at the beach.

‘I would feel safe in a tsunami,’ it said, under a meme with the phrase: ‘Sun block. SPF 400.’

Mr Charlwood, who moved to Townsville from Sydney in 1979, was also declared a bankrupt between 1995 and 1998.

Malcolm Charlwood's Facebook had this meme on Facebook likening wives to hand grenades

Malcolm Charlwood’s Facebook had this meme on Facebook likening wives to hand grenades

Undischarged bankrupts are ineligible to serve as members of the Queensland parliament. 

However, Mr Charlwood was discharged from his bankruptcy on 8 June 1998, making him eligible to serve.

Since 1986, he has been involved in failed plans to develop artificial islands, marinas and hotels at Mission Beach in far north Queensland.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission records he was first appointed a director of Mission Beach Marina Pty Ltd in August 1986. 

He has also been a director and shareholder of Mission Beach Harbour Pty Ltd which was finally deregistered in August 2017, with none of the grand Mission Beach projects ever being built.

A document from the Australian Financial Security Authority shows he was a bankrupt between May 1995 and June 1998, having been discharged on 8 June 1998.

One Nation candidate Malcolm Charlwood was a bankrupt between May 1995 and June 1998

One Nation candidate Malcolm Charlwood was a bankrupt between May 1995 and June 1998

While One Nation is polling strongly in Queensland, with 16 per cent support across the state in a Newspoll survey, the party has been plagued by dubious candidate choices.

Last week, another One Nation candidate in Townsville, Mark Thornton, confirmed to reporters he owned a sex shop.

One Nation senator Pauline Hanson was angered as a 7News reporter asked the Thuringowa candidate about Cupids Cabin, an adult shop in Aitkenvale, managed by his wife which had a questionable Facebook post.

‘Good sex should be in the grey area between tickle fight and domestic violence,’ it said. 

Fellow Townsville One Nation candidate Mark Thornton (left) confirmed to reporters his wife ran a sex shop, as Pauline Hanson looks on awkwardly

Fellow Townsville One Nation candidate Mark Thornton (left) confirmed to reporters his wife ran a sex shop, as Pauline Hanson looks on awkwardly

In July, One Nation disendorsed John Cox as its candidate for the seat of Redcliffe, north of Brisbane, after he posted and backed conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks on Facebook.

In January, One Nation sacked Shan Ju Lin as its candidate for the the Ipswich seat of Bundamba after she said on Facebook that gay people should be ‘treated as patients’.

A day later, Senator Hanson issued a media release saying she made ‘no apologies for being tough on candidates’.

A few days later her party dumped its candidate for the far north Queensland seat of Mulgrave, Peter Rogers, for suggesting the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania was a hoax and that the dead three-year-old Syrian boy, photographed on beach in 2015, was alive and well.  

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