One Nation’s South Australian leader Cory Bernardi has been banned from Facebook just days after receiving “legal threats” over his publication of student protest videos.

The videos featured Bernardi labelling young protesters “losers” and “incels” at last month’s “Students against Hanson” protest.

Bernardi took to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday to say he had been suspended from Facebook and that One Nation would appeal the decision.

“This follows legal threats from parents of kids at the anti-Hanson protest, demanding we delete our viral video of what happened in broad daylight on the steps of Parliament House,” Bernardi said.

“These students performed for the cameras, used vile language and made threats, knowing they were being filmed.”

Days earlier, One Nation SA had confirmed that lawyers acting on behalf of parents of children featured in the social media videos had sent “legal threats” and demands to delete the footage.

An estimated 2000 high school and university students walked out of classes in early August to take part in protests across the country. They carried placards with messages like “Nazis are monoculture” and “there’s no good racists”, while some could be heard chanting “F–k Pauline Hanson” and “F–k Cory Bernardi”.

Bernardi’s video of him confronting protesters amassed more than 753,000 views, 32,000 likes and thousands of comments on Instagram. The same video reposted by conservative lobby group Turning Point Australia gained more than 1.5 million views.

Another protest that organisers say will “be even bigger” is planned for Adelaide on September 17.

School students protest in Adelaide against One Nation. Photo: InDaily

Social media users called Bernardi’s videos “creepy”, with one writing “that’s what happens when you post images of minors on social media without their consent Cory”. But others supported Bernardi’s bid to get his account reinstated.

One Nation SA upper house MP Carlos Quaremba called the ban “p–s weak”.

“They are so scared of what we’re saying that they can’t even debate us on the issues, they just want to shut us down,” Quaremba said.

“If they’re going to shut us down, they’re going to shut you down next, it’s unacceptable.

“We’ve had threats of violence, we’ve had threats of legal action, but I’ll give you the hot tip, as long as my arse points to the ground we’re not stopping and we’re coming even harder.”

In other developments, One Nation will bring a censure motion against Deputy SA Premier Kyam Maher in parliament this week about what it says are “misleading” comments about One Nation’s parliamentary staffing resources.

The party says it has been denied equal resources to other SA crossbench parties.

“[Maher] said that One Nation had been allocated an additional seven staff, describing this as far above and exceeding what had been provided to the other minor parties,” Bernardi told the SA parliament in August.

“No one knew about the seven additional members of staff except, obviously, the Deputy Premier, who claimed it was there the day before, but it is clearly another misleading statement.”

A spokesperson for Maher said the censure motion would be dealt with by the Legislative Council this week and breaches of social media standards were determined by the social media platforms.

Republished from InDaily