A far-left Muslim Greens politician has demanded all Australian senators be forced to do anti-racism training while claiming the country was “built on racism”.
Deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi, who came to Australia from Pakistan in 1992, made the statements in the Senate on Tuesday amid the fallout from One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s burqa protest a day earlier.
Ms Hanson was censured and suspended for seven sitting days for wearing a black burqa into the chambers after she was blocked from tabling a bill calling for Islamic veils to be banned, sparking outrage from Ms Faruqi, fellow Muslim immigrant senator Fatima Payman, and aboriginal senator Lidia Thorpe.
Ms Faruqi, who was heavily criticised last month for attacking White people, accused the government of hypocrisy for constantly talking about a “wonderful multicultural nation” while following her suggestions on combating racism.
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“Nazis are literally marching on our streets, and that is being allowed to happen in NSW by the NSW Labor government. A motion is good, but that is nowhere near what we need to do,” she said.
“Every single person in this chamber should be forced to do anti-racism training. That has been the recommendation for a long time, of various committees and frameworks. Let’s start there.
“And at the end of the day, unless discrimination, racism and inequity for first nations people is ended, nothing will change, because this country was built on violence, on racism, on discrimination of first nations people.
“So today as a Muslim woman who has faced this racism and discrimination from the day she stepped into public life, I plead with you … let this be the start of actually dealing with structural and systemic racism.”
Far-left Pakistan-born Muslim Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi attacks “White people” during emotional rant defending aboriginal colleague’s comment about “burning down Parliament House”.
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Last month Australia’s largest Anglo-Celtic advocacy group, the British Australian Community, called for Ms Faruqi to resign for saying “you White people in here claim English as your first language” during a racially charged rant aimed at Liberal and Labor senators.
President Harry Richardson said Ms Faruqi had displayed a “pattern of what we view as egregious racist remarks directed at Australia’s Anglo-Celtic community”.
“Senator Faruqi has a documented history of statements that appear to target and demean White Australians, most of whom belong to the nation’s founding and majority population of Anglo-Celtic descent,” he said.
Mr Richardson provided four examples – a 2021 tweet calling the phrase “all lives matter” a “catch cry of White supremacists and fascists”, a 2022 tweet saying “Show me White fragility”, her “no comment” response in 2024 when asked if all White people are racist, and her October 27 comments.
Header image: Mehreen Faruqi making her comments (Australian Parliament).
