Australia to censure Senator Fraser Anning over ‘ugly’ New Zealand attack comments
By DW
18 March 2019 |
1:23 pm
Australia's government plans to censure a far-right senator who claimed Muslim immigration was to blame for the New Zealand mosque attacks. The Islamophobic comments also caught the attention of a teenager with an egg.
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