Senator Fraser Anning uses first speech to call Safe Schools and gender diversity “garbage”
Image: Fraser Anning. Image: Facebook / Fraser Anning.
In a widely condemned first speech to Parliament, Queensland senator Fraser Anning has called for a return to the White Australia policy and labelled Safe Schools and gender diversity as “garbage”.
The Katter Australian Party senator told the upper house that Australia should ban Muslims from settling in the country and hold a plebiscite on whether to return to a European-only immigration system.
“We as a nation are entitled to insist that those who are allowed to come here predominantly reflect the historic European-Christian composition of Australian society,” he said.
“Those who come here need to assimilate and integrate.”
Anning then took aim at the Muslim community, and said the reasons for ending Muslim immigration were “compelling and self-evident”.
“The record of Muslims who have already come to this country in terms of rates of crime, welfare dependency, and terrorism are the worst of any migrant [group] and vastly exceed any other immigrant,” he said.
“The majority of Muslims in Australia of working age do not work and live on welfare.
“While all Muslims are not terrorists, certainly all terrorists these days are Muslims, so why would anyone want to bring more of them here?”
Politicians have since roundly condemned the speech, with senator Penny Wong delivering an impassioned speech to Senate earlier today.
“Yesterday in this chamber we saw a speech not worthy of this parliament, and a speech that did not reflect the heart of this country,” she said.
“We saw a speech which did not reflect a nation being built by people from every country, or every part of this world.
“A nation that is divided is never safer, and a nation that is divided is never stronger.”
Anning, who unsurprisingly voted No in the marriage equality postal survey last year, also used his speech to attack Safe Schools.
“To describe the so-called ‘Safe Schools’ and ‘gender fluidity’ garbage being peddled in schools as ‘cultural Marxism’ is not a throwaway line but a literal truth,” he said.
“Given that everyone knows there are only two genders, if you can be persuaded to agree to and advocate in support of the false claim that there are ‘an infinite number of genders’, then, without realising it, you have surrendered your political soul.”
This just shows how low politics in this country has gone. Hopefully, though we can all turn this around and lift the politics of small minded hateful people like Anning and Katter up out of the gutter.
There is something very, very wrong with Australia’s Democracy when a person who gets just 19 – that’s right Nineteen – votes can get elected to any Australian Parliament.
Anning represents no-one.
Newly-born neo-fascist, Katter represents almost no-one – he’s just another elitist Downer-clone who thinks because Daddy was in Parliament he, and doubtless just like Alexander he will think his children are entitled to inherit his seat in Parliament.
The Voters in SA’s Federal Seat of Mayo showed the Downers just what they thought of that on July 28th 2018!
It’s weird isn’t it? Members of the GLTBIQ Community, particularly from Sydney and Melbourne, flock to live in Queensland, mostly on either the Sunshine or Gold Coasts. Yet, of all the States and Territories, Queensland returns the most neo-fascists, neo-nazis, bigots, racists, xenophobes, homophobes to the Federal Parliament.
Maybe it is time the GLTBIQ Community in Queensland put aside their martinis and actually made a determined effort to get rid of them.
Remember they loathe and despise us. They would rather we were all dead.
So why do you elect these bastards?
The only time anyone will pay attention to this man is he stands up and says garbage like this. He’s an embarrassment