The Liberal Democratic Party is standing by one of its councillors for this weekend's local government elections despite his recent affiliations to the far-right Australia First party and telling Fairfax Media "Asian [Australians] probably wouldn't make good soldiers".

Despite the remarks, NSW cross-bench senator and de facto party leader David Leyonhjelm has declined to distance himself from the party's candidate, Tony Pettitt, for Hawkesbury Council in Saturday's elections.

Despite recently having been its president, Mr Pettitt, a truck driver, played down his role in the far-right Australia First party on Tuesday. But he made fresh remarks that will raise questions about how far he has moved from its ideology, at odds with the LDP's open-borders approach, and quoted past remarks that some migrants have "no concern for the rule of law".

Mr Pettitt said his first preference would have been to stand for Pauline Hanson's One Nation in the council poll but the option was not available.

Mr Pettitt's political activities brought him into the orbit of Australia First's party leader, Jim Saleam, a stalwart of Australia's "white nationalist" movement who was imprisoned for involvement in a planned 1989 attack on local members of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress, and was famously revealed as himself having ethnic heritage.

He was quoted as agreeing with a party colleague who said that "third world migrants" had turned "things to poo".

"If they want something, they just take it," Mr Pettitt was reported to have said. "No concern for the rule of law. Different values."

But on Tuesday he told Fairfax Media he was never an integral member of the political party.

"I never got into the inner sanctum," he said of the party which has been linked to racist leaflets and a policy of abolishing multiculturalism.

Mr Pettitt said he had run under its banner at the last council elections, in 2012. He was also a candidate for Australia First in 2013 federal elections and said he had even been installed as the group's federal president, but had been asked to be removed from that role some years ago.

"They're a bunch of ning-nongs," Mr Pettitt said. "I think they just used me as window dressing."

He denied any friendship with Dr Saleam: "I only know him politically," Mr Pettitt said. "I never went on these stupid protests they used to organise."

In an interview Mr Pettitt did not resile from his previously reported remarks about some other cultures impacting negatively on Australia.

"You look at some of the cultures that are causing a lot of crime around the place," he said. "You've got the middle eastern crime gangs. You've got the Asian triads. You've got the Russian Mafia."

Mr Pettitt agreed he would rank races according to a hierarchy in some respects.

"I suppose the Asian Chinese have a great capacity for detail and repetition. We all know they're good scholars.

"Aussies are good fighters in war," he said. "Whereas an Asian probably wouldn't be. There's horses for courses. You don't put donkeys in the Melbourne Cup".

While Mr Pettitt said he believed in curbing immigration – a policy at direct odds with the Liberal Democratic Party's – he said he was not a racist and valued everyone with "something to contribute".

"I respect the Aboriginals," he said. "I think they're a great culture… that's why they never evolved from a caveman jungle-type evolution, 'cos they never had to."

When presented with these remarks, a spokesman for Senator Leyonhjelm declined to add to an earlier statement about Mr Pettitt's earlier relationship to Australia First.

"We reject racism of all kinds," the spokesman said. "We are willing to accept members from all kinds of backgrounds who have since gotten a clue.


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Article misses the point.

The Chows are very good economic soldiers as they stage their economic invasion of Australia.

Chows will take over Australia without a bullet being fired. They already have Labor in their pocket.