One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s podcast interview with far-right British figure Tommy Robinson has cleared up any ambiguity about the meaning of her call for a “monocultural” Australia.

She means a return to the notorious, racist White Australia policy, which was formally ended by the Gough Whitlam Labor government in the 1970s.

In her interview with Robinson, Hanson said that Australia’s “migration issues” started when Whitlam “opened up and got rid of the White Australia policy” and “they started bringing in the different migrants”.

“We had a lot of people come out after the second world war, Italians, Germans, Polish, and these people, but they integrated into the system. A lot of them couldn’t speak English but they learned to speak English. They had to work. These people who came in and really assimilated.”

Hanson made the false claim that, in contrast to these European immigrants, migrants from Muslim backgrounds came to Australia to rip off the welfare system and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

This podcast with Robinson, who has been convicted of fraud, assault and contempt of court and is considered a thug even by far-right Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, lays bare the real nature of One Nation’s call for monoculturalism — a return to the white White Australia Policy.

Australia never had one culture or one ethnicity........

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