An Australian politician is branding himself Aussie Trump after legally changing his name to protest what he calls "corrupt-to-the-core" Labor governments.
Previously known as Ben Dawkins, the independent Western Australian state MP used social media to announce his name had been changed to Austin Letts Trump.
He is listed on the WA parliament website as Hon. Aussie Trump MLC.
Mr Trump told AAP he admired the US president's leadership style.
"Donald Trump is great at calling out absurd, woke, leftist crap and that's what Aussie Trump is intending to do," he said on Thursday.
"As Donald would say, we shouldn't be held hostage to the Green-Labor climate ideology ... we need to drill, baby, drill."
Mr Trump, a lawyer who was elected to parliament as a Labor MP before being booted out in 2023, said the federal and WA Labor parties were authoritarian and "corrupt to the core".
He said gender identity laws, a live sheep export ban, electoral funding rules, firearms reforms and COVID-19 vaccine mandates had motivated his decision.
Mr Trump used X to share a photo of a Births, Deaths and Marriages notice confirming his name change.
Named in fifth spot on Labor's South West region ticket for the 2021 election, his unlikely elevation to parliament came two years later in a recount when the candidate above him declined the opportunity to replace a retiring MP.
He was dumped by Labor weeks later when allegations of family violence order breaches emerged.
He pleaded guilty in June 2023 to 35 charges of breaching a family violence restraining order and received a $2000 fine and 10-month community-based order.
Mr Trump later joined Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party but left in 2024.
