One Nation's Greenvale candidate apologises for old Facebook posts
Chris Moore, One Nation's candidate for Greenvale in Victoria, has apologised for a series of offensive comments he made on his personal Facebook page between 2010 and 2012, The Guardian reported on 11 November 2026. One Nation Victoria has not disendorsed him, which means the party has not withdrawn its endorsement of him as a candidate.
Greenvale is a seat held by Labor with a margin of 7.1 per cent. The member for the seat, Iwan Walters, is parliamentary secretary for multicultural affairs.
The posts described in reporting include repeated references to Australian-Indians as "curry munchers." In a 2010 post, Moore wrote about getting "the curry munchers" to wash his car, and added that "the boat people are good for something after all." In 2012 he shared a picture of a woman and a child, both wearing burqas, between two full rubbish bags, captioned "Haha spot the difference." He also shared an image calling former prime minister Julia Gillard a slut, and made derogatory comments about lesbians and refugees. One post referred to a cleaner at his workplace in a homophobic way.
Moore said the posts were "unthoughtful posts I shared as a young man among close friends," and that they do not reflect who he is today.
Other One Nation candidates in Victoria have also been dropped. The party disendorsed its Preston candidate, Franco Guardiani, over social media posts that described Adolf Hitler as the "GOAT" and claimed that "importing Islam is making pedophilia legal." Victorian leader Warren Pickering said Guardiani was disendorsed as soon as the comments were confirmed. One Nation also disendorsed its Melbourne candidate, Matthew Collins, over social media comments about sexual consent and pornographic jokes. Those comments have since been deleted.
