Fraser Anning’s Adviser Has Quit Over That 'Final Solution' Speech

Advisor to Queensland senator Fraser Anning, Richard Mcgilvray, has resigned after the senator delivered his now-infamous hate-filled speech calling for a ban on Muslim migration.

Mcgilvray, who managed the senator’s legislative agenda, condemned the speech on LinkedIn, stating: “His reference to ‘the Final Solution’ was not something I had seen, heard of, or discussed prior to his remarks last night and as a consequence, within hours of Senator Anning’s speech, I resigned my position.”

In Nazi Germany, euphemistic language was employed to disguise the extermination of the Jewish people, particularly in the case of “the final solution to the Jewish question.” Environmental Minister Josh Frydenberg, who is of Jewish faith, told Sunrise, “I was deeply offended, no doubt like every Australian was because these comments should not have been made in the Australian parliament.”

While praising the White Australia policy, which barred people of non-European descent from immigrating to Australia during most of the 20th century, Senator Anning suggested a plebiscite, inviting the nation to vote on which migrants should be barred from Australia.

Although both houses of parliament condemned Senator Anning’s speech, he was defended by party leader Bob Katter, who described the speech as “solid gold” before saying, “Ask the people who they’re afraid of, you had a vote about yes and no, why don’t you have a vote about this?”

In his speech, Senator Annings said, “While not all Muslims are terrorists, certainly all terrorists these days are Muslims. So why would anyone want to bring more of them here?”

He went on to claim that most Muslims living of working age are on welfare. But ABC’s fact check have disproved Anning’s claim with data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Stats which were verified by economics professor John Quiggin from the University of Queensland.

During a motion supporting Australia’s non-discriminatory immigration policy, Labor MP Anne Aly said of her Muslim faith, “I’m tired of fighting, I’m tired of having to stand up against hate, against vilification, time and time and time again.”

During his maiden speech in parliament, Senator Anning’s cited an attack on a train in Broken Hill in 1915, before declaring, “Muslim immigrants have been a problem ever since.”

The Senator remains unapologetic, and in an interview with SBS News, he said “I’ve run some of the roughest pubs in Australia… I just say to them harden up and get over it.”