Ralph Emmanuel Didier "Deej" Babet is an Australian politician.
27 Facts About Ralph Babet
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Ralph Babet has been a senator for Victoria in the Australian Parliament since 2022, representing the United Australia Party, and is the party's only current federal elected representative.
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Ralph Babet grew up in Doveton, attending the Holy Family Catholic Primary School and later St John's Regional College in Dandenong.
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Ralph Babet holds the degree of Bachelor of Business from Swinburne University of Technology and an advanced diploma in sales and marketing from the Chisholm Institute.
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On Christmas Day 2014 in Toorak, Ralph Babet was charged with criminal damage.
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Ralph Babet was instead ordered to participate in a diversion program.
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Ralph Babet pleaded guilty to the charges at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on 22 August 2018.
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Ralph Babet was on the committee of the Australian Sovereignty Party in 2010.
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Ralph Babet renounced his Mauritian citizenship in March 2022, just under a month before the federal election was called to avoid being disqualified from the Australian Parliament by Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia.
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Green went on to say that once Ralph Babet was ahead he could lose only if Mirabella's preferences flowed to Labor, which was unlikely since the Coalition's how-to-vote card had recommended second preference to the United Australia Party.
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Ralph Babet stated the deregistration was made for "administrative reasons" and that he would continue to represent the deregistered party in the Senate.
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Ralph Babet is able to continue identifying as a United Australia Party member in the Senate, with the office of the Clerk of the Senate stating that Ralph Babet's status as a UAP senator would not change until he advised the office otherwise.
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On 9 September 2023, Ralph Babet launched a bid in the Federal Court to force the AEC to acknowledge crosses as a no vote for the Indigenous Voice referendum.
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On 17 February 2024, Ralph Babet appeared in a photo with a member of the National Socialist Network, who was performing a partial Nazi salute.
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Ralph Babet distanced himself from the man and told The Age "I don't know the guy".
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On 10 November 2024, Ralph Babet again drew controversy when he tweeted racial and homophobic slurs.
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Ralph Babet did not join the Trumpet of Patriots political party as soon as Palmer did.
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Ralph Babet says that he stands for freedom and individual liberties.
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Ralph Babet is against vaccine mandates and the "ever-growing power and authoritarianism of the government", and he believes the mandates are "segregation".
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Ralph Babet says he is not vaccinated against COVID-19, considering the vaccine to be "emergency gene therapy".
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Ralph Babet believes that there is an equal number of scientists on either side of the debate.
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Ralph Babet says he is "not happy" with transgender issues being taught at schools, saying he disagrees with "little boys and girls being taught that you can be a boy one day and a girl the next day".
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Ralph Babet has promoted a number of conspiracy theories, including that the 2022 election was going to be rigged.
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Ralph Babet has been openly critical of the "billionaire circus" that he perceives to be the World Economic Forum, while at the same time praising some billionaires including Clive Palmer, who funded the electoral campaign which won Ralph Babet's seat, and Elon Musk.
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Ralph Babet considers voluntary euthanasia "murder", calling it a "darkness that will engulf us all".
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Ralph Babet referred to the Australian Government as a "far-left extremist government".
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Ralph Babet attended the two week Australian Defence Force Parliamentary program in 2023, but was criticised by the Australian Defence Association for his publication of photos wearing military uniform for blurring the lines between politics and armed forces.