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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n No gift articles left<\/p>\n You’ve used all of your gift articles. 3 more will become available on the 1st of every month.<\/p>\n Close<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n One Nation\u2019s candidate for Melbourne has resigned over a series of highly sexualised and offensive tweets, including one in which he claimed to have never asked a woman for \u201cany form\u201d of sexual consent.<\/p>\n Matthew Collins, who has previously promoted anti-Muslim rhetoric and COVID-19 conspiracy<\/a> theories online, withdrew his candidacy on Friday after it was revealed he had shared pornographic jokes and offensive statements on social media.<\/p>\n In a statement provided to this masthead, the 35-year-old apologised for his past comments and described them as \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are not reflective of who I am as a person now, and I deeply regret ever having made them,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n According to a series of X (Twitter) posts obtained by this masthead before Collins shut down his account, and before he was selected as a candidate, he posted in February 2020: \u201cI\u2019ve never once asked any woman for any form of consent, ever,\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all implied by a woman\u2019s actions and attraction levels which any astute man will be paying attention to.\u201d<\/p>\n In another post, Collins suggested sexual consent was \u201ccringe\u201d and joked about the number of times he had previously asked a woman for consent.<\/p>\n Another X post features a lewd comment about a woman\u2019s body parts and a reference by Collins about his sexual activities during the pandemic.<\/p>\n Collins\u2019 social media posts have also previously called to \u201cdecolonise\u201d parts of the Muslim world and referenced Christian military campaigns against Muslims in parts of what is now Europe.<\/p>\n A One Nation spokesperson said the party had been made aware of a number of \u201coffensive comments\u201d posted on social media by Collins and had accepted his resignation.<\/p>\n \u201cOur party does not condone these comments,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n According to the party\u2019s candidate profile for Collins, he is newly married and works in sales. He was running as a candidate Greens-held seat to restore community safety and ease cost-of-living pressures.<\/p>\n The latest Resolve Political Monitor conducted for this masthead shows that One Nation was currently polling at a 23 per cent primary vote<\/a>, suggesting that the party will for the first time have a significant presence in the next Victorian parliament.<\/p>\n With Patrick Hatch <\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n![\"Matthew](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3468de52625fd97fe2ca69db2b9bccf55d0e9ca1.jpeg\")
Matthew Collins was running for One Nation in the Greens-held seat of Melbourne.<\/p>\n