According to psephologist Antony Green's analysis of the Victorian Senate Election, Babet's win was due to strong One Nation preference flows once One Nation was excluded. While United Australia Party chairman Clive Palmer ran a candidate in every seat and spent a reported $100,000,000 on the campaign, Babet was the sole success for the UAP at the 2022 federal election, taking the sixth Victorian senate seat from the Liberal Party's Greg Mirabella. Politics īabet renounced his Mauritian citizenship in March 2022, just under a month before the federal election was called, in order to avoid being disqualified from the Australian parliament by Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia. His brother unsuccessfully contested the seat of Bruce in the 2022 federal election. Together with his brother Matt, Babet runs a real estate firm. Those charges were dismissed on 22 August 2018 by the Melbourne Magistrates' Court because he complied with a bond/undertaking. On 6 September 2018, he was charged with unlawful assault in South Melbourne. On 6 March 2017, a criminal damage charge was recorded but no conviction was given by the Melbourne Magistrates' Court, because he accepted responsibility without pleading guilty. On Christmas Day 2014 in Toorak, Babet was charged with criminal damage, but the charge was dropped in 2015. He holds the degree of Bachelor of Business from Swinburne University of Technology and an advanced diploma in sales and marketing from the Chisholm Institute. īabet grew up in Doveton, attending the Holy Family Catholic Primary School and later St John's Regional College in Dandenong. He and his family migrated to Australia in 1990 when he was seven years old, and he became an Australian citizen in 1993. Babet was born on 29 June 1983 in Rodrigues, Mauritius.
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