Australia gasps as senator invokes Nazi ‘final solution’ for immigration
Sydney — An Australian politician was widely condemned on Wednesday after demanding "a final solution" to immigration and calling for a return to the White Australia policy which favoured "European Christians". Queensland senator Fraser Anning stunned legislators when he invoked, during his maiden speech, the infamous Nazi phrase used under Adolf Hitler in reference to annihilating Jewish people from Europe. He also sparked widespread opposition by calling for a ban on Muslim migrants and defending the race-based White Australia immigration policy which was in place for seven decades from 1901. "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," Anning, formerly of the populist One Nation Party and now with the Katter Australian Party, told the upper house Senate late on Tuesday. "Those who come here need to assimilate and integrate." He said "ethnocultural diversity ...
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