William Lang (Ungrouped Independent)
May. 9th, 2022 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
b_auspolWilliam Lang:
Website: https://www.williamlaingindependent.com/
William Lang is probably most famous for winning $500,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and a number of subsequent game show appearances for things like Mastermind and The Chase. This means a lot of the search results on him cover this material – yes this is the same guy. It also gives some insight into his personality.
A quick peruse of his website tells you immediately that Lang is right wing. In fact, having drawn the last box of the ungrouped column, he jokes he’s the “extreme right” candidate! (Policy wise this isn’t the case, given some of the other parties running, but it’s definitely something to keep in mind). He spends a fair amount of time complaining about the “woke left”, if you need a tenor of his views.
Lang is campaigning on a couple of different points this year: Energy Security, Aged Care and Freedom of Expression.
In terms of energy policy, you’ll probably be shocked to hear that Lang doesn’t like renewable energy because we don’t have manufacturing capacity here and are reliant on Chinese imports. He draws an analogy with Russian gas sales. He therefore thinks aiming for net-zero is unethical, because we have local supplies of coal and gas which we can use instead (stating they’re ‘low emissions’ which is only true compared to brown coal). Basically, he wants local energy manufacture without any international imports. This reveals he’s clearly anti-globalist.
The aged care policy is more support for aged care services (truly, along with an ICAC, this has to be one of the ground level things everyone’s campaigns, both left and right, are talking about), and for the government to provide this support by spending more money and better regulation of the sector. No real direction to this other than ‘throw more money at it’.
The Freedom of Expression policy is your standard “people get told off for plain speaking these days” complaints. The examples he raises as persecution for free speech include the sort of poor right wing academics who end up losing their jobs for being outright flogs (Peter Ridd, Barry Spurr), an anti-lockdown campaigner Zoe Buhler, and Bill Leak getting rinsed for being an appallingly racist cartoonist. He’s also for Elon Musk buying twitter as he thinks the site moderation has a left-wing bias, and is for the sort of free speech so beloved of US folk yelling about their first amendment rights. Look, we do not have guaranteed free speech in Australia, and honestly none of these people listed are a good example of why we need it – they all held dangerous views and the general public being outraged by these views is unsurprising.
William Lang thinks being described as “far right” is good and a benefit to him. Let that guide where you put him on the ballot.
Website: https://www.williamlaingindependent.com/
William Lang is probably most famous for winning $500,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and a number of subsequent game show appearances for things like Mastermind and The Chase. This means a lot of the search results on him cover this material – yes this is the same guy. It also gives some insight into his personality.
A quick peruse of his website tells you immediately that Lang is right wing. In fact, having drawn the last box of the ungrouped column, he jokes he’s the “extreme right” candidate! (Policy wise this isn’t the case, given some of the other parties running, but it’s definitely something to keep in mind). He spends a fair amount of time complaining about the “woke left”, if you need a tenor of his views.
Lang is campaigning on a couple of different points this year: Energy Security, Aged Care and Freedom of Expression.
In terms of energy policy, you’ll probably be shocked to hear that Lang doesn’t like renewable energy because we don’t have manufacturing capacity here and are reliant on Chinese imports. He draws an analogy with Russian gas sales. He therefore thinks aiming for net-zero is unethical, because we have local supplies of coal and gas which we can use instead (stating they’re ‘low emissions’ which is only true compared to brown coal). Basically, he wants local energy manufacture without any international imports. This reveals he’s clearly anti-globalist.
The aged care policy is more support for aged care services (truly, along with an ICAC, this has to be one of the ground level things everyone’s campaigns, both left and right, are talking about), and for the government to provide this support by spending more money and better regulation of the sector. No real direction to this other than ‘throw more money at it’.
The Freedom of Expression policy is your standard “people get told off for plain speaking these days” complaints. The examples he raises as persecution for free speech include the sort of poor right wing academics who end up losing their jobs for being outright flogs (Peter Ridd, Barry Spurr), an anti-lockdown campaigner Zoe Buhler, and Bill Leak getting rinsed for being an appallingly racist cartoonist. He’s also for Elon Musk buying twitter as he thinks the site moderation has a left-wing bias, and is for the sort of free speech so beloved of US folk yelling about their first amendment rights. Look, we do not have guaranteed free speech in Australia, and honestly none of these people listed are a good example of why we need it – they all held dangerous views and the general public being outraged by these views is unsurprising.
William Lang thinks being described as “far right” is good and a benefit to him. Let that guide where you put him on the ballot.
