One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts has advocated for remigration and the mass deportation of Australia’s more than 100,000 fake refugees in a passionate speech on mass immigration.
The Queensland senator made the comments while addressing a Housing and Immigration Summit hosted by right-wing political campaign firm Australian Firebrand in Brisbane last weekend where party leader Pauline Hanson was also in attendance.
Former Liberal National Party senator Gerard Rennick, NSW One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds, economist Leith van Onselen, March for Australia promoter Hugo Lennon, and housing advocate Morgan Cox also spoke at the event.
Mr Roberts began his speech by talking about the anti-immigration message sent by the massive turnout at the March for Australia rallies, before going on to talk about remigration.
The term was recently popularised by right-wing Austrian activist Martin Sellner and has since been adopted as policy by the Freedom Party of Austria before their best-ever election result in 2024 and the Alternative for Germany among other European parties, and endorsed multiple times by Donald Trump.
“We’ve got four million non-citizens in this country, that’s 15% of the population, four million non-citizens. We have 2.9 million temporary residents on resident visas, 75,000 – now revised to 100,000 illegals – we want to deport them immediately,” Mr Roberts said.
“Remigration is the second part of my speech. Take the people who are not fitting in, or that we don’t need, and send them home. Send them home.”
The crowd applauded and members of the audience shouted “send them home”.
“Just this year, four colleges were responsible for over 20,000 illegitimate qualifications, rorting the system – it’s a ponzi scheme. Why are these people still in the country?” Mr Roberts asked.
“Mass immigration is not in Australia’s interest. We need to put Australia first – stop immigration, deport people, remigrate.”
Mr Roberts’ comments come as One Nation surges in the polls, recording record-high primary support due to the Coalition abandoning promises to cut immigration and focussing on appealing to immigrant voters instead.
The leftward shift has caused some friction within the Liberal Party, with leader Sussan Ley dumping aboriginal senator Jacinta Price from her shadow ministry for saying there were concerns about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese bringing in record numbers of Indian because 85% of them vote Labor.
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie then weighed in on the debate this week, saying immigration levels were “unsustainable” and that Australians are “starting to feel like strangers in our own home”, but said on a recent podcast that he wanted net overseas migration at 2019 levels, which is still far above the historical average.
Header image: Malcolm Roberts during his speech (Australia Firebrand).
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