He first ran with the group in 2013, led by mining magnate Clive Palmer, when it was called the United Australia Party.

“That will continue because people are fed up with the major parties. They want alternatives,” he said.

What does the Trumpet of Patriots stand for?

According to its website, the party’s key policies are:

• Launch an investigation into wasteful government spending;
• Cut immigration;
• Allow Australians to use their superannuation to buy housing and cap interest rates at 3 per cent;
• Repeal the ban on nuclear energy;
• Exit the Paris Agreement on climate change action;
• Get the ‘woke agenda’ out of schools;
• High-speed rail;
• Withdraw from global organisations such as the World Health Organization and United Nations; and
• Place a 15 per cent licence fee on all iron ore exports from Australia.

Trumpet of Patriots chairman Clive Palmer at the party’s campaign launch on 19 April. Source: AAP / Danny Casey

Controversy over adverts

Clive Palmer ‘wants to help people’

Loke also explained that while the party name references US President Donald Trump, the Trumpet of Patriots does not take his policies.

“In the USA, government waste and corruption is finally being exposed. For too long, Australians have suffered from a Labor and Liberal duopoly of power supported by the Greens and now the Teals,” it reads.

He has pledged $90 million to campaigning and is fielding more than a hundred candidates across the Senate and House of Representatives.

‘I would come to your house … to help’