Cory Bernardi
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Senator Cory Bernardi |
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| Senator for South Australia | |
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Assumed office 4 May 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Hill |
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6 November 1969 Adelaide, South Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
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Conservatives (2017–present) Liberal (2006-2017) |
| Spouse(s) | Sinead Bernardi |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Alma mater | Prince Alfred College |
| Occupation | Politician, fund manager, hotelier |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | www |
Cory Bernardi (born 6 November 1969) is an Australian politician and former rower. He has been a Senator representing the state of South Australia in the Australian Senate since 2006 and is the leader of the Australian Conservatives, a minor political party he founded in 2017. He is a former member of the Liberal Party of Australia, having represented the party in the Senate from 2006 to 2017.
From the late 1980s to 2006 Bernardi was a rower. He entered politics in 2006 when he was selected by the Liberal Party to fill a Senate seat vacancy for South Australia left by the resignation of Robert Hill.
Bernardi is staunchly conservative and a Roman Catholic. He is the author of The Conservative Revolution.
During his time in Parliament, Bernardi has attracted controversy over several statements and views. These include: saying that permitting same-sex marriages would lead to legalised polygamy and bestiality; doubting human activities as a cause of global warming; criticising Islam as "a totalitarian political and religious ideology" and calling for a ban on wearing the burqa in public; opposing abortion and saying those who support it are "pro death"; and saying that the "safe schools program" designed to make homosexual children feel safer at school "bullies" heterosexual children. Several of his colleagues from his own party at the time, distanced themselves from Bernardi's comments, including Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
On 7 February 2017, Bernardi announced that he would be leaving the Liberal Party to form his own party, the Australian Conservatives.
Bernardi was born and raised in Adelaide, and attended Prince Alfred College in Kent Town, South Australia. His father was an Italian immigrant who came to Australia in 1958. His maternal grandfather was a trade unionist and a staunch Labor supporter. He went on to undertake a business and management course at South Australian Institute of Technology before winning a scholarship and furthering his rowing career at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1989.
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