Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

This is a government that has been deporting First Nations people from their own country, and continues this very day to lawfully detain some First Nations people in immigration detention centres in Australia. We have seen Minister Dutton conducting a dishonest scare campaign against African Australians, claiming that people were too scared to go out to dinner in Melbourne in the face of so-called Sudanese gangs, even when Victoria Police were publicly saying that there are no Sudanese gangs in Melbourne. This is a minister that boycotted the apology to the Stolen Generation. This is a minister who continually and consistently attempts to undermine the rule of law by increasing his capricious powers as minister at the expense of those of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. This is a minister who shares a party room with Mr Christensen, who went on a Neo-Nazi podcast and proudly addressed a Reclaim Australia rally. This is a minister who serves under a Prime Minister who told his shadow cabinet colleagues in 2011 that they should demonise Muslims for political gain. Let's remind ourselves that it is not two years since Neo-Nazis tried to take over an entire branch of the National Party in New South Wales. The LNP is riddled with right-wing extremists, and they give comfort and succour to Nazis and Neo-Nazis in this country. Minister Dutton's false equivalence—

Senator McGrath interjecting—