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Prominent Maronite-Lebanese-Aboriginal-Jewish-Venetian-Irish-Catholic North Queensland MP Bob Katter has quickly learned that the new Senator he stole from One Nation is actually probably more racist than anyone in One Nation.
In a provocative first speech to Parliament, KAP’s first Queensland senator, Fraser Anning has called for a return to a “European Christian” immigration system, effectively ruling out anyone like Bob Katter’s late grandfather Carl Khattar from migrating to Australia from Lebanon and moving to Outback Queensland and being one of the first 11 investors in Qantas.
Mr Anning was sworn in last year as a One Nation Senator before defecting to Katter’s Australian Party, after being promised the resources he needs to continue arguing to slash alcohol taxes for pub owners in Gladstone, like him.
But according to Fraser Anning, it’s not just the taxes on liquor and beer that are ruining Gladstone, it’s the middle eastern migrants, who are apparently showing interest in the Central Queensland mining port.
“We as a nation are entitled to insist that those who are allowed to come here predominantly reflect the historic European-Christian composition of Australian society,” he told the Upper House in his maiden speech.
“Those who come here need to assimilate and integrate.”
He said migrants should embrace the English language and Australian values, saying cultural diversity undermined social cohesion, like it did for Bob Katter’s father Robert Katter sr, the first Maronite Catholic Lebanese mayor of Cloncurry and distant cousin of famous Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran.
“Ethnocultural diversity … has been allowed to rise to dangerous levels in many suburbs,” said Anning.
The Queenslander called for migration numbers to be slashed, and a ban on Muslim people migrating to Australia.
