Cory Bernardi

A former Australian politician. He was a Senator for South Australia from 2006 to 2020, and was the leader of the Australian Conservatives, a minor political party he founded in 2017 but disbanded in 2019. He is a former member of the Liberal Party of Australia, having represented the party in the Senate from 2006 to 2017. Bernardi is a committed conservative Roman Catholic and author of The Conservative Revolution. He set up the Australian Conservatives Party in 2017 but disbanded it in 2019. He resigned from parliament in 2020. The Heartland Institute website states he founded the Conservative Leadership Foundation – a not-for-profit educational, research and training organization dedicated to developing Australia’s future leaders.