‘Outrageous and racist’: premier responds to NSW One Nation candidate’s claim Australians are being ‘demographically replaced’
Summary
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns and Australia’s race discrimination commissioner criticised One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds after he claimed at an anti-immigration rally that Australians were being “demographically replaced.” The commissioner said claims that migrants cannot truly be Australian risk fuelling division and racism.Key Facts
- Stuart Bonds leads One Nation’s ticket for the New South Wales upper house and is the party’s first-listed candidate.
- Bonds made the comments at an anti-immigration rally in Sydney on Sunday, attended by several hundred people.
- Bonds said mass migration needed to be curtailed and warned that demographic change would be impossible to reverse.
- Chris Minns called Bonds’ remarks outrageous and racist and described replacement theory as a conspiracy theory imported from the United States.
- Australia’s race discrimination commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman, said migrants are central to Australia’s history and warned against blaming them for the country’s challenges.
- The article says Bonds was likely to win a seat in the March state election based on then-current polling.
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