A One Nation candidate receiving Liberal preferences in the West Australian election once advocated killing Indonesian journalists, and attacked "poofters", Muslims and black people on his now-deactivated Twitter account.
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Richard Eldridge, a real estate agent contesting an upper house seat in the South Metropolitan region of Perth, called Muslims "little sheet heads", derided gay relationships as "poo games" and advocated taking up arms against "extreme Muslims".
In one extraordinary rant about Indonesians in November 2013, Mr Eldridge said we should "Balibo" Indonesian journalists, an apparent reference to the 1975 murder of the Balibo Five group of Australian journalists in Timor.
"The only real thing Muslims are good at is multiplying but that is all they need to do history will show," he tweeted. "Let's hunt down some indo reporters and balibo them. What's Suharto up to these days.
"I've got indo mates and fuc their [sic] arrogant about their superiority over us lazy Aussies. we are regarded as shit in Indonesian eyes."
In other tweets from the account, which bore the name "Ned Kelly", Mr Eldridge stated:
"You never here [sic] a good looking black person complain its [sic] the ugly blacks that start this nonsense Mohammed Ali was black and he loved it.
"Gays [sic] marriage certificate could be called the poof proof certificate or the licker letter of law.
"You see when we consummate a marriage kids are generally born 9 mths later when gays consummate its [sic] just bum sex for enjoyment.
"Don't call Muslims towel heads anymore its [sic] a little sheet so yes they will answer to little sheet heads.
"Extreme Muslims hide amongst us watch out common man the future looks ugly give us back our guns."
And in a series of tweets in May 2013, Mr Eldridge made reference to the Noongar people, an Indigenous group from Western Australia's south-west.
"The girl who was racist to to Adam Goodes should be sent to Perth to meet some noogahs on the streets here wonderful people," he tweeted.
"Lovely people the noogahs of WA just the other day we caught one of them moving our letterbox.
"Yeah he must have thought it was more useful to us on its side right in the middle of the footpath."
When contacted by Fairfax Media on Wednesday, Mr Eldridge initially said he could not explain the tweets because he could not remember them, before threatening to litigate if anything "derogatory or negative" were published.
After Fairfax Media emailed screenshots of the tweets, Mr Eldridge acknowledged they belonged to his now-deactivated account @hugetrouble, but dismissed them as "locker room talk" and apologised for any offensiveness.
"I don't remember most of the tweets. One of them I do. But it was pretty much locker room talk," he said.
"I deactivated the account because I wasn't running in 2013. It's locker room talk, mate, that's all it is. I didn't want to offend anyone."
Regarding the tweets about the Noongar people, Mr Eldridge expressed regret but said he was recounting a real incident involving his letterbox.
"I want to work with these people if I get elected and try to do some good with the Aboriginal people. My heart's in the right place," he told Fairfax Media.
"The letterbox was taken down and put on the pavement. It's not like I'm making it up. It does look like I'm being a bit racist but I'm not."
Mr Eldridge is unlikely to win the metropolitan upper house seat, but will receive Liberal Party preferences ahead of the Liberal Democrats, Labor and the Greens.
A preference deal between One Nation and the Liberals in WA has come under heavy criticism, with the Liberals ditching the Howard-era practice of putting One Nation last.
Earlier this week Industry Minister Arthur Sindonos said One Nation was more "a lot more sophisticated" than it was 20 years ago.
Fairfax Media has contacted One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for comment.
