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Thread #164693   Message #3944290
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
16-Aug-18 - 04:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: Australian senator calls for 'final solution'
Subject: RE: BS: Aust senator calls for 'final solution'
party leader hails speech calling for 'final solution' on Muslim migration Politicians unite in condemnation of Fraser Anning’s speech, but his party leader Bob Katter says he backs him ‘1000%’
Bob Katter, the veteran Queensland political maverick, has lauded an inflammatory speech by his Senate representative, Fraser Anning, declaring the contribution “absolutely magnificent” and “everything that this country should be doing”.
As political leaders moved in lock-step to condemn Anning’s speech – which praised the White Australia policy, called for an end to Muslim migration, and invoked the term “final solution” – Katter, the leader of Katter’s Australia party, struck a starkly different note, declaring the speech had his “1,000% support”.
In a bizarre press conference where he upbraided journalists as “racists” for referring to his father’s Lebanese heritage, Katter backed Anning’s call for a ban on Muslim immigration, and declared current non-discriminatory immigration policies were “bringing in the persecutors”. (READ ON)

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Mark Knight cartoon on the maiden speech of Senator Fraser Anning Anning came into Parliament last year when his predecessor in the Pauline Hanson party Senator Roberts was thrown out. Anning was next on the party list but only received 19 votes! 5 minutes later he & Pauline Hanson fell out & he joined Bob Katter's party ... Mark Knight - Pauline Hanson's new Senator Fraser Anning departs on debut!