Published: August 15, 2018
Fraser Anning, as well as sections of the media and parliament, continue a long tradition of racist rhetoric in Australia
It was heartening to see federal parliament roundly condemn the latest psephological boundary rider to demand national attention with an inflammatory Senate speech invoking the worst crimes of the Holocaust, praising the white Australia policy and proposing a ban on migration for Muslims.
Nobody much had ever heard of (let alone voted for) the racist barnacle, Fraser Anning. So that’s a box ticked for him and his “leader”, Bob Katter, whose praise for the speech now stands as a full stop between his name and political decency.
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