A fringe figure in Australian politics who landed in his current position in 2017 thanks to a fluke of election law, Anning proceeded to make a name for himself with a series of incendiary comments that even his one-time allies agreed were racist
By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 18 at 6:35 AM It was the egg crack heard around the world.
On Friday, Anning drew international attention when he wrote that Muslims “may have been the victims today; usually they are the perpetrators” in a statement that was released just hours after at least 50 people were killed in an anti-immigrant terrorist attack in two New Zealand mosques.
Just incredible: As 49 Muslim worshippers lay dead in New Zealand, a sitting Australian senator blames “the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand”. pic.twitter.com/13w7aAK8IR “He got a slap across the face, which is what his mother should have given him long ago, because he’s been misbehaving badly,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “When someone cracks you on the back of the head you react and defend yourself.” As for his fellow lawmakers’ plans to censure him for his comments, his response was dismissive: “What, is Mr.
One Nation, which had typically struggled to win seats in a general election, ended up electing two senators from Queensland that year. Anning still didn’t get enough votes to qualify. He came in third and was beaten out by the party’s longtime leader, Pauline Hanson, and Malcolm Roberts, a climate change denier who previously had worked in coal mines.
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