The Liberal National Party is being called on to apologise after members of its youth branch on the Gold Coast posted a racist video online.
Queensland's opposition leader is facing increasing pressure to apologise after the Gold Coast youth branch of theBarclay McGain, chair of the Gold Coast Young LNP, a teenage boy who made racist remarks about Australian Aboriginal culture and a third individual who put it online were suspended by the party on Tuesday.
They are also being investigated by the party's internal disputes committee, which will make recommendations to the party's state executive next year. Mr McGain, who was filmed interviewing the boy on the Gold Coast during Schoolies celebrations, was seen laughing when the teen said:"I'm fed up with having all these sports stars stand out on our stages and not sing the national anthem."I mean we've got to stop celebrating a culture that couldn't even invent the bloody wheel for God's sake. We've got to start enjoying and living in Western culture.
Gold Coast Young LNP today released a video of vox pop interviews at Schoolies. It's now taken down. In it, we see this comment about Aboriginal Australians and their culture
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