claims she endorsed White Australia policy in an interview with far-right UK activist Tommy Robinson<\/a>.<\/p>\nAsked in the interview about where issues with Pakistani and African migrants began, she pointed to the end of White Australia policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it started in 1973 with Gough Whitlam, so they opened up and got rid of the White Australia policy. Then they started bringing in the different migrants,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people came out after the Second World War, say Italians, Germans, Polish and these people, but they integrated into the system.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of them couldn\u2019t speak English, but they learnt to speak English. They had to go and work. A lot of them came\u2026 with only a pound in their pocket.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut over the decades, as the governments have changed\u2026 a lot of people come in to Australia purely for the welfare system or to get on our NDIS.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of them are ripping the system off who are a lot from the Muslim areas and they’re getting on the scheme, but there’s a lot of Aussies too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke later condemned Ms Hanson, suggesting she had advocated for a return to White Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never thought when I entered parliament that in my political lifetime anyone who had been elected to parliament would be calling for White Australia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also lashed out at Ms Hanson, suggesting she had said removing the White Australia policy was wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have seen Senator Hanson\u2019s comments that say that Australia has got it wrong when we moved away from the White Australia policy in 1973,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important to recognise that the movement away from White Australia wasn\u2019t just the Labor government\u2026 it was actually a bi-partisan position that began in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
\u201cModern Australia is made up of, with the exception of First Nations people, people who\u2019ve come from all over the world to make Australia their home.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrejudice is something that isn\u2019t normal, isn\u2019t intrinsic to human endeavour, it\u2019s something that is taught.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolitical leaders have a responsibility to promote social cohesion in this country and that\u2019s what I want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking from London over the weekend, Ms Hanson rejected White Australia and said people were trying to discredit her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I\u2019m in London about to attend a dinner, but I had to bring to your attention the comments by the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know those two leftist organisations that want to try and destroy myself and One Nation and discredit me?<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re false allegations that I wanted to introduce the White Australia policy. Not the case. 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