The post, titled "The drowned boy, the lie that changed the world", was written by Peter Rogers, the One Nation candidate for the seat of Mulgrave in this year's Queensland state election.



Rogers argues that world leaders are to blame for giving credit to the "farcical drowned boy story", and opening the floodgates for "fraudsters" (refugees) to come to Australia.

He says former prime minister Tony Abbott was duped by the fake photo into bringing "tens of thousands of refugees" to Australia.

"The greatest social changes that happen in Australia are founded on total lies and a fabricated incident. Look at Port Arthur," Rogers writes.

There is a conspiracy theory that convicted mass murderer Martin Bryant was not responsible for the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, an incident that led to then prime minister John Howard changing gun laws and initiating a gun buyback.

"Abbott couldnt [sic] act quick enough to get more of these so called poor people in here... The whole photo thing was fabricated, As it turns out this kid was alive and well."

Rogers doesn't provide evidence for how he thinks the photo was faked.