One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has said Australia’s immigration problems all started with the end of the White Australia Policy.
The Queensland senator made the comments in a podcast interview with right-wing British commentator Tommy Robinsons recorded during her visit to the UK last week.
During the interview, which was released on Thursday, Ms Hanson also highlighted the fact that NDIS fraud was rampant in areas with high Muslim populations, revealed she was now “friends” with ex-prime minister Tony Abbott, and said her daughter Lee had the potential to become party leader.
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“How have you ended up with Pakistanis, Somalis, all of these African problems, with violent Africans. I’ve seen some crazy videos coming out of Australia. How has that happened when you have such a strong immigration policy?” Robinson asked at one point in the interview.
“Well it started in 1973 … they opened up and got rid of the White Australian Policy then they started bringing in the different migrants,” Ms Hanson replied.
“We had a lot of people came after the Second World War. Italians, Germans, Polish, and these people, but they integrated into the system. And a lot of them couldn’t speak English, but they learnt to speak English. They had to go and work.
“A lot of them came to the country, and I spoke to some just recently, and they came with only a pound in their pocket, and a lot of the ’10 pound poms’ came out to Australia as well, but they integrated … these people who came in really assimilated.”
Ms Hanson went on to say that Australia then began to take “a lot of people who just came in purely for the welfare system or to get on our NDIS”, and told Robinson the National Disability Insurance Scheme had almost 800,000 participants and was costing taxpayers more than $50 billion a year.
“Is there any way of finding out that nationality of those people, or the religion or culture?” Robinson asked.
“A lot of them are ripping the system off who are, a lot from the Muslim areas, and they’re getting on the scheme,” Ms Hanson replied.
“But there’s a lot of Aussies too, other Aussies, so I’m not just going to pick them out, but it is quite known that in the Muslim streets you’ve got quite a lot in that street who are on the NDIS scheme, so we know that it’s actually happening.”
Health Minister Mark Butler addressed Ms Hanson’s comments on ABC Radio National and claimed he’d never been informed that particular nationalities or religions were overrepresented in the NDIS.
An analysis earlier this year found that Sydney’s worst areas for NDIS fraud are Labor heartland seats home to the city’s largest Muslim and immigrant populations, and investigations have found that Middle Eastern gangs are heavily involved in scams targeting the scheme.
There have also been a number of high-profile recent NDIS fraud cases involving Muslims, including a Somalian mother-of-seven and a Melbourne disability support boss jailed in March, and an Indian fraudster who had her homes seized in Sydney, along with arrests in Adelaide and Sydney.
Header image: Left, Pauline Hanson speaking Tommy Robinson in the podcast. Right, with Robinson in Luton (Tommy Robinson – X).
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