Leader of the Nationals in the Senate Bridget McKenzie has said an Australian monoculture would be “pretty boring”, following statements from One Nation leader Pauline Hanson yesterday that multiculturalism was a “failed policy”.
“I think a monoculture would be pretty boring. We all have come from somewhere else. If you’re an Indigenous Australian, your family arrived here 50,000 years ago. My own family arrived from Denmark five generations ago,” McKenzie told journalists at Parliament House in Canberra.
“If you don’t want to build the Australian project, if you want to change Australia, then don’t come. We are very proud of who we are as a country, proud of where we’ve come from, but we all need to be united on building a safe and sustainable future in Australia,” she said.
“So I don’t accept that we need to be changing Australia, and if we’re going to bring in people from other places who want to see those values diminished, derided, torn down. Then I wouldn’t support those kind of people coming into our country.”
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