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Eugene

(62,781 posts) Wed Apr 3, 2019, 08:45 AM Apr 2019

Fraser Anning: Australian MP censured for 'appalling' Christchurch remarks

Source: BBC

Fraser Anning: Australian MP censured for 'appalling' Christchurch remarks

3 April 2019

The Australian Senate has formally censured a lawmaker who sparked outrage by blaming the New Zealand mosque attacks on Muslim migration.

Senator Fraser Anning, a far-right independent, made his comments on the day of the shootings in Christchurch which killed 50 people last month.

On Wednesday, lawmakers from across the political spectrum condemned his "inflammatory and divisive" remarks.

Mr Anning said the censure was "an attack on free speech".

The reprimand, the fifth to be passed by the Senate in the past decade, stated that Mr Anning's remarks last month did not reflect the views of the parliament or the Australian people.

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Fraser Anning was condemned by the Senate for his comments about the Christchurch attacks (EPA)