Alex Jones, chemtrails, and the man Hanson won't sack

Malcolm Roberts is a cooker.

Not a maverick, not a contrarian, not a plain-speaking Queenslander asking the questions nobody else will ask.

A cooker. The full catalogue, held by a sitting senator, for a decade.

This week it caught up with him.

A 2024 appearance on The Alex Jones Show surfaced, in which Roberts praised the man who told America that the murder of 20 primary school children at Sandy Hook was staged by their own government.

Also a 2024 post sharing a mural about Jews controlling global finance, captioned with a complaint about the “Uniparty” and its “globalist UN-WEF policies”.

Independent MP Allegra Spender said Hanson should demand his resignation.

Barnaby Joyce, asked to defend the man he sits beside, managed: “I'm not here to start carpeting Malcolm.”

Roberts's own response was to compare himself to the victims of the Holocaust.

He did it by borrowing Martin Niemöller's poem, written by a German pastor imprisoned by the Nazis for seven years, about Germans staying silent as the regime came for socialists, trade unionists and Jews until there was nobody left to speak for them.

Roberts deployed it because journalists quoted him accurately.

None of this is new. That's the part worth sitting with.

In 2011 Roberts sent Julia Gillard a letter addressed to “The Woman, Julia-Eileen: Gillard”, signing himself “Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul”, demanding exemption from the carbon tax.

That's sovereign citizen doctrine — the belief that a government's authority over you is a contract you can void, and that the right punctuation is what voids it.

Five years later he was elected to the Senate.

In 2012, running the Galileo Movement, he told the Sydney Morning Herald climate science had been captured by “some of the major banking families in the world” forming a “tight-knit cabal”.

He named Rothschild. He named Goldman Sachs. He named Warburg.

Andrew Bolt — Andrew Bolt — walked away from the group over it.

Roberts wrote a 135-page document titled “Why? Motives Driving Climate Fraud”, arguing international bankers are pursuing global control through environmentalism, that the CSIRO is their instrument, that the UN was built to deliver a New World Order.

In 2016 he sat on Q&A opposite Brian Cox, who produced a graph of a century of global temperatures.

Roberts said NASA had corrupted the data.

Cox, holding the graph, looked like a man who had been asked to argue with weather.

On COVID he stood in the Senate and named a dead 36-year-old father of two as a vaccine victim.

Daniel Perkins's family had never spoken to him, didn't know the cause of death, and found out from the news. His brother-in-law called it the most disrespectful thing he'd ever seen.

On chemtrails, Roberts says the US military is likely “doing trials on these things”.

He has praised Vladimir Putin.

He has called the Bondi attack on Hanukkah celebrations a possible false flag.

Here's the thing about the cooker worldview: it always arrives at the same address.

Bankers. Families. A cabal. Globalists. The Uniparty. People who control the money and the media and the science, who are never named outright but never really need to be, because everyone listening knows exactly which families are meant.

Roberts insists he isn't antisemitic.

He has said so for 14 years, while pointing at Rothschild and Warburg and Goldman Sachs and asking you to notice a pattern.

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor put the question to Hanson directly.

“She's over in Italy living it up it seems. She needs to deal with this ... now.”

He is One Nation's most senior parliamentary figure. He was elected in 2016 and he is still there.

Hanson is in Sicily and hasn't said a word.