Senate censures Fraser Anning for 'shameful' Christchurch comments

Penny Wong says ‘he doesn’t speak for this nation’ as One Nation senator Peter Georgiou compares motion to a ‘public flogging’

Fraser Anning has been censured and condemned roundly by the Senate for his comments on the Christchurch massacre, with only One Nation not supporting the censure.

A Greens motion to suspend Anning from the Senate failed after Senate president Scott Ryan reminded the chamber that any attempts to suspend a senator would need to meet a threshold for “disorderly conduct” – a test that relates to conduct inside the chamber.

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