Australia’s prime minister and politicians from across the political spectrum on 15 Aug. condemned a speech by a freshman senator calling for only white immigration and a “final solution” to end Muslim immigration.
Senator Fraser Anning used his first speech in parliament on Tuesday to call for a return to a “White Australia” immigration policy that reflects the “European Christian composition of society,” echoing a policy that barred people of non-European descent from immigrating. The policy was abolished in 1973.
“I believe that the reasons for ending all further Muslim immigration are both compelling and self-evident,” Anning, a member of the right-wing Katter’s Australian Party (KAP), told a mostly empty hall of lawmakers.
“While all Muslims are not terrorists, certainly all terrorists these days are Muslims, so why would anyone want to bring more of them here?” he asked, going on to claim Muslims are the least able to integrate, don’t work and are welfare dependent.
He later called for a national vote on immigration, saying the “the final solution to the immigration problem is of course a popular vote,” not a decision by a government.
Source: DW
