Ultra-Conservative Cory Bernardi Is Off to the United Nations

Maybe all the weird shit espoused by Senator Cory Bernardi has become too much for the Coalition to bear. Or maybe, as Cory says, it's just that "experiences such as this broaden the knowledge of any parliamentarian fortunate enough to participate."

In any case, the ultra-conservative South Australian will be joining Tasmanian Labor senator Lisa Singh on a three-month bipartisan secondment to the UN. Usually, this happens in early September.

We have absolutely no proof that Bernardi is being buried over his outbursts as an ideological antique. However, we do know that Bernardi has previously shown little respect for the UN, or the Prime Minister.

In 2010, Bernardi told the Senate that policy under Labor had "seen billions of dollars of Australian taxpayer funds disappear into that fiscal black hole of bureaucracy known as the United Nations." In the same rant he also described the UN as an "unaccountable foreign organisation."

Bernardi has often disagreed with the Prime Minister as well. Last year he posted an ironic quote from Turnbull, highlighting that his position on gay marriage has changed since 2008. Then in December he criticised Turnbull for backing a bill with the Greens without consulting the party.

"The party room was promised that proper process would be followed in regard to policy initiatives. That promise now rings hollow and I hope it's not an indication of what we can expect in the future," he said.

And then there was the time Turnbull distanced himself from Bernardi over the latter linking gay marriage to polygamy and bestiality. He called the comparison "very extreme and extremely offensive," and told Sky News "his remarks create a lot of offence with same-sex couples.

"I dissociate myself from them completely," said Mr Turnbull.

Obviously Bernardi getting palmed-off to the UN would take a lot more than just a private spat with the PM, but then Bernardi has been making himself particularly embarrassing lately. On top of his usual Tweets against Islam, Bernardi has been getting vocal on the federally funded Safe Schools Program, which offers support to LGBTIQ students in high school.

"Bullying isn't something confined to homosexuals yet you are encouraging a program that actually bullies heterosexual children into submission for the gay agenda," Bernardi wrote in an email to William Russell, a supporter of the Safe Schools program.

It's speculated that the outcry from conservatives such as Bernardi is the reason the government has ordered a review into funding of the program.

So look, whatever the reason Cory Bernardi is out, it's really great news.

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