Queensland MP George Christensen has said that mainstream media and cultural institutions have a dominant influence on Australian politics, which adversely affect “key conservative issues.” This was one of the reasons Christensen outlined when announcing on Thursday night that he will not be renominating as the Liberal National Party (LNP) candidate for the federal seat of Dawson at the next election. But he hopes to be able to do more for conservative issues from outside of Parliament. “While I’ve been repeatedly encouraged by the party, my staff, my colleagues, and my voters to run again, the reality is in the past year I’ve been separated from my family who was caught up overseas with the pandemic,” he said in a video posted to Facebook. “They’re now here in the country, so I want to focus more on them going into the future.” The member for Dawson said he only ever …