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Australian ministers under fire for backing 'okay to be white' vote
[PULSE.NG] Australia's indigenous affairs minister and several of his colleagues faced calls to resign Monday, after they backed a failed parliamentary motion tabled by a controversial senator that declared: "It is okay to be white."Several government ministers -- including those for trade, communications and indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion -- backed a resolution drafted by populist firebrand ... firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... senator Pauline Hanson which railed against what it described as "the deplorable rise of anti-white racism". Luke Pearson, the founder of influential anti-racism group, IndigenousX, echoed a string of calls for Scullion to resign after the vote. "The minister for Indigenous Affairs, voting in support of what is widely known to be a white supremacist slogan, 'It's okay to be white', makes his position as minister entirely untenable. He needs to resign," Pearson wrote. Scullion, a white senator for the Northern Territory, has held the Indigenous Affairs portfolio since 2013. During parliamentary debate Hanson defended trying to codify what opponents see as race baiting. "Such a simple sentence should go without saying," Hanson told the chamber, before her motion was defeated 31 votes to 28. "But I suspect many members in this place would struggle to say it." Posted by: Fred 2018-10-16 |
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