Editing Angry Anderson (section)

== Political views ==
In July 2007, Anderson was criticised by some after espousing his views on [[Muslim]] immigration to Australia when he told the Sydney ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|Daily Telegraph]]'':<ref name=telegraph/><ref name=carlton/>
{{blockquote|It's not ill-conceived to look at certain people and question when they come out here what they bring with them ... We have strict quarantine laws and it should be the same when it comes to cultures that do not want to integrate. We should be very careful about where certain Muslims come from and what they believe. If you come here, you should behave yourself—it's as simple as that... If people come and live in any country and their way of life is ''so different'' they need their own ''special laws'', then possibly they have to pick somewhere else to live. The idea of any Muslim being photographed for a passport or a licence with one of those shrouds on—sorry, it just can't happen.}}

On 1 March 2010, he told a Federal Parliamentary Committee into the impact of violence on youth that life experience has taught him "Aussies use their fists" when they fight and that "weapons were introduced by other cultures."<ref name="Kamper"/> In March 2011, Anderson declared he was a supporter of conservative politician [[Tony Abbott]] and his views against a tax on [[carbon dioxide]] emissions.<ref name="Thompson"/><ref name="Johnston"/> He announced in October that year that he was joining the conservative [[National Party of Australia|National Party]], and was interested in standing for a seat in the next Australian federal election.<ref name="MacKenzie"/> When asked whether his more '[[Left-wing politics|leftie views]]' might be gagged (he supports [[same-sex marriage]], for example) he replied, "maintaining some sort of order and balance is about agreement, compromise, setting rules as the head of the house. I've learnt to be a part of the family. So I'm not going to say things in public that are going to embarrass the party."<ref name="SMH3"/> He was selected as the National candidate for the [[Division of Throsby]] in New South Wales under his birth name, Gary Anderson. Although he did not win, his preferences helped the Coalition net a four-percent swing in the seat.<ref>{{cite web |date=2013 |title=Throsby |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2013/guide/thro |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=ABC election guide |publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |location=Australia}}</ref>

In 2012, Anderson participated in the [[Special Broadcasting Service|SBS]] doco-reality show ''[[Go Back To Where You Came From]]'', in which six Australians, each with differing opinions on Australia's asylum seeker debate, were taken on a journey to which refugees have taken to reach Australia. At the outset of the series Anderson says that "boat people" who arrive in Australia illegally should be sent back to their countries of origin: "If you come here illegally, I don't care about your story, first thing you do is you turn around and go back." Later in the series, after having met with refugees from Afghanistan who settled in Melbourne as well as visiting war-torn [[Kabul]], Anderson softened his stand on the subject: "Now I've been here and spoken to people, I don't want to turn away refugees, I don't want to turn away people who need to be reunited with their families. I don't want that. Who would want that? I don't want people to go on suffering needlessly, when we can give them somewhere safe to be. But I don't want them to come to Australia in boats."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/goback/video/207/series-2-episode-2 |title=Series 2: Episode 2 &#124; Videos &#124; Go Back to Where You Came From |publisher=SBS |date=15 August 2012 |access-date=21 February 2013}}</ref>

Again endorsed by the National Party in September 2014, this time in the New South Wales seat of [[Electoral district of Cessnock|Cessnock]] for the [[2015 New South Wales state election|2015 state election]], Anderson withdrew his candidacy in February 2015, citing personal reasons.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theland.com.au/story/3370340/angry-withdraws-as-nationals-candidate/ |title=Angry withdraws as Nationals candidate |work=[[The Land (newspaper)|The Land]] |date=9 February 2015 |access-date=4 June 2016 }}</ref>

In 2016 Anderson was endorsed as an [[Australian Liberty Alliance]] candidate for the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] representing New South Wales at the [[2016 Australian federal election|2016 federal election]]. The Australian Liberty Alliance is a right wing group that opposes Muslim immigration to Australia.<ref>{{cite news |last=Boult |first=Adam |date=9 May 2016 |title=Anderson is now candidate for anti-Islamic political party |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/09/suddenly-singer-angry-anderson-is-now-candidate-for-anti-islamic/ |access-date=4 June 2016 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=McCabe |first=Kathy |date=6 May 2016 |title=Angry Anderson joins anti-Islam party to chase a Senate seat at the Federal election |url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/angry-anderson-joins-antiislam-party-to-chase-a-senate-seat-at-the-federal-election/news-story/cf23fd04d6e709c99d5feaeacb818f11 |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=news.com.au |location=Australia}}</ref>