Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

It is dangerous and disgusting that, in the same week that Neo-Nazis paraded the streets calling for a white Australia, the Labor government is rushing through harsh anti-immigration deportation laws that will impact—surprise, surprise!—black and brown people the hardest. The Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 paves the way for the mass deportation of migrants and refugees with no legal safeguards and no opportunity for protection. Australia's immigration regime is so brutal that even Trump pointed to Australia's system and said:

That is a good idea. We should do that too. You are worse than I am.

Shame! He took inspiration from this colony, from the Labor government, just like South Africa got its inspiration for apartheid from the Aboriginals Protection Act in Queensland.

It is racist laws like these that form the fabric of this colony, and this has been the case since the invasion of our sacred lands. This creates a hotbed for white supremacy. White supremacy doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has been allowed to flourish as racist and divisive laws and attitudes to non-white people are laid into the very foundations of this colony, as we see today. Some might assimilate, and I don't know how they sleep at night.

If the Nazis were in parliament today—or maybe they are—they would applaud—