Australian senator Fraser Anning embarked on a shocking anti-LGBT rant on the floor of the country’s senate on Tuesday, likening LGBT people to perverts and sexual deviants. Anning, from the fringe hardline Katter’s Australian Party, made the incendiary comments while taking the floor to discuss an LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying programme called Safe Schools. He said: “Fifty years ago, if a communist pervert had proposed that our nation’s children be forced to listen to sexually deviant propaganda, they would probably have been strung up. “Today, this disgusting garbage is called the Safe Schools program, and its leading exponents hold comfortable government funded positions.