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'White Australia': Hanson's sickening call
Story by David Hannant
July 18, 2026
See translation in Arabic section
Sydney – Middle East Times Int’l: “I never thought when I entered parliament that in my political lifetime anyone who had been elected would be calling for White Australia,” - Tony Burke MP he said.
Australia’s home affairs minister has angrily hit out at comments made by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson on a podcast with a British far right commentator.
Appearing on a broadcast alongside the controversial Tommy Robinson, Senator Hanson appeared to blame migration issues on the abolition of the White Australia policy 50 years ago.
Introduced after 1901, the measure restricted non-European immigration to the country and was torn up in 1973.
Tony Burke MP During a press conference on Saturday morning to unveil the government’s response to a report into Islamophobia, Mr Burke took aim at Senator Hanson’s comments.
“I never thought when I entered parliament that in my political lifetime anyone who had been elected would be calling for White Australia,” he said.
“I thought we were in a country where everybody just accepted we had moved on and we were better because we had moved on.
“Part of saying you love Australia is to love Australia for who we are, not some perverted concept of a country where we would turn on each other, where Australians would basically lose capacity for kindness towards each other.”
He added: “You will never find an orchestra where every instrument is the same.”
‘Perverted’: Hanson slammed after podcast During the podcast with Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, asked Senator Hanson about Australia’s immigration issues.
“How have you ended up with Pakistanis, Somalis, all of these African problems, with violent Africans. I’ve seen some crazy videos come out of Australia,” he said.
Senator Hanson replied: “They opened up and got rid of the white Australian policy then they started bringing in the different migrants.”
“We had a lot of people come out after the Second World War. Italians, Germans, Polish, and these people, but they integrated into the system,” she said.
“A lot of them couldn’t speak English, but they learnt to speak English. They had to work. These people who came in and really assimilated.”
Senator Hanson also suggested migrants were coming into the country “purely for the welfare system” and that Australian Muslims were having children because they were taught “Allah will provide”.
“Well, the Allah that is providing is the taxpayer,” she added
‘Perverted’: Hanson slammed after podcast Anthony Albanese told the same press conference that Islamophobia was on the rise and that it had “no place in Australia”.
“Hate directed at one community hurts us all,” the Prime Minister said.
“Diversity is one of Australia’s great strengths and we wont as a nation let hate divide us.
“Every Australian has the right to feel safe, valued and respected for the contributions they make to our great nation.”
The government response came to a report from Islamophobia special envoy Aftab Malik, who outlined the challenges Australian Muslims face against a backdrop of rising Islamophobia.
“For Muslim Australians who continue to experience Islamophobia in their daily lives, this has been a long wait,” he said.
“This is just the start of the journey. To tackle Islamophobia at its roots we must address the challenging questions.” |
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