One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson has warned that Australia is at risk of being swamped by Muslims in her maiden speech to the Senate, echoing her first speech to Parliament in 1996.
She also repeated her call for a ban on all future Muslim immigration, telling the chamber that if things did not change, Australians would eventually be forced to live under sharia law.
“Now we are in danger of being swamped by Muslims who bear a culture and ideology that’s incompatible with our own,” she said.
As she spoke, a number of Greens senators followed leader Richard Di Natale as he walked out of the chamber.
“Together, our MPs have left Senator Pauline Hanson’s first speech because we’ll call out racism wherever it occurs, including Parliament,” Senator Di Natale later said on Twitter.
“Racism has no place in Parliament but that is what we have just heard from Senator Hanson. I stand with those people hurt by her words,” another tweet read.
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I am still waiting Pauline's last invasion to happen! It has taken twenty years. She really should wait for her first invasion to happen before she announces another one, it is just good manners.
Yeah it's a howler, except if you are trying to win a housing action I guess these days.
But yeah, I'm still waiting for Perth to become our first ghost city due to climate change and brisbanes dams to never fill again like predicted prior to the Queensland floods. Still, it's only been 9 years since Perth would have to be abandoned due to lack of water.
Another invasion? That's so 1996.
One Nation voters are just the disaffected Liberal voters who voted for PUP in 2013. A mere minority group with a loud voice as many conservatives would say.
True that, the same way Greens are Labor voters who are too snobby to want to be seen as working class.
Actually I think many Labor voters are proudly working class. I could be wrong but I don't think most Green voters are working class at all.
Pretty much.
That's exactly what Guest5 was saying.