NSW premier condemns One Nation candidate’s demographic replacement claim
Briefing by News4U · First published
The Guardian reported that NSW Premier Chris Minns described One Nation upper-house candidate Stuart Bonds’ claim that Australians are being “demographically replaced” as “frankly outrageous and racist,” adding that the replacement theory is a conspiracy imported from the US. The race discrimination commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman, said the comments sow “division and hate” and ignore Australia’s history of migration. Federal multicultural affairs minister Anne Aly said questioning someone’s right to belong because of race or ancestry is “divisive, dangerous and goes against everything we stand for as Australians.” [1]