Key facts
- Chris Moore, One Nation's candidate for Greenvale, apologised for offensive Facebook posts made between 2010 and 2012.
- Moore told Guardian Australia the posts were "unthoughtful posts I shared as a young man among close friends".
- One Nation Victoria has not disendorsed Moore over the comments.
- One Nation Victoria disendorsed Preston candidate Franco Guardiani on Tuesday over social media comments about Hitler and Islam.
- One Nation also disendorsed Melbourne candidate Matthew Collins over now-deleted comments on sexual consent and pornographic jokes.
- Victorian leader Warren Pickering said Guardiani was disendorsed as soon as the comments were confirmed.
One Nation's candidate for Greenvale in Victoria, Chris Moore, apologised on November 11, 2026 for a series of offensive comments posted on his personal Facebook page between 2010 and 2012, Guardian Australia reported. The posts included repeated references to Australian-Indians as "curry munchers", a comparison of a woman in a burqa to a bag of rubbish, and an image calling Julia Gillard a slut, according to the report.
Moore also made derogatory comments about lesbians and refugees, including a post that he "doesn't like the way the new homo cleaner at work looks at me". In 2012 he shared a picture of a woman and child wearing burqas standing between two full plastic rubbish bags with the caption "Haha spot the difference". He also shared an image of Gillard and the Neighbours character Alf Stewart with captions including "If I wanted a greasy red box I'd go to KFC ya slut".
In a statement to Guardian Australia, Moore said: "these were unthoughtful posts I shared as a young man among close friends". He added: "They don't reflect who I am today. Today I'm focused on doing the right thing by the voters of Greenvale, and giving them a strong voice in the Victorian Parliament." One Nation Victoria has not disendorsed him over the comments.
Greenvale is a fairly safe Labor seat with a margin of 7.1%, held by Iwan Walters, a parliamentary secretary for multicultural affairs. The electorate has a large Islamic and West Asian population, one of the highest proportions of people born in the Middle East and the lowest share of people with no religion. At the last election there was a swing of almost 15% against Labor on a two-party preferred basis.
On Tuesday, One Nation Victoria disendorsed its candidate for Preston, Franco Guardiani, whose private social media account described Adolf Hitler as the "GOAT" and claimed that "importing Islam is making pedophilia legal". The party's Victorian leader, Warren Pickering, said Guardiani was disendorsed as soon as the comments were confirmed. "At a time when Jewish Australians are experiencing unprecedented persecution, we are appalled that these comments have been made," Pickering said. Guardiani said he was disappointed by the party's decision to dump him but understood their decision.
One Nation also disendorsed its candidate for the seat of Melbourne, Matthew Collins, over now-deleted comments on social media regarding a number of issues including sexual consent and pornographic jokes. Collins has apologised for the comments. It is unclear how these candidates' personal social media histories were not detected during candidate selection and vetting processes. The party has claimed to have invested time and money into improving this process. In Victoria, One Nation candidates must provide their personal social media accounts for vetting and are interviewed by a three-person selection panel including Pickering and two party officials.