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News live: Canavan says Hanson ‘not fit to lead’ a political party after inflammatory comments about Muslim Australians
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Outspoken Nationals senator Matt Canavan has pushed back on Pauline Hanson’s increasingly inflammatory statements about Australian Muslims this week, saying she is not fit to lead a major political party.
Hanson was on Sky News on Monday night, discussing the thwarted attempts by Australian women and children stuck in Syria to return home.
The One Nation leader said the group hated westerners, saying: “You know, you say, ‘oh, well, there’s good Muslims out there’. Well, I’m sorry, how can you … tell me there are good Muslims?â€
Pauline Hanson issues partial apology for suggesting there are no 'good' Muslims
The One Nation leader has received backlash for suggesting there were no "good Muslims" during an interview with Sky News. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
Pauline Hanson has issued a partial and heavily qualified apology for suggesting that there are no "good Muslims".
The One Nation leader said she would not apologise for speaking out against radical Islam and the threat she believed it posed to Australia.
The minor party has surged in popularity in recent weeks, according to a series of opinion polls, with an expected by-election in Farrer set to be the first real-world test of whether that will translate into votes.
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Canavan attacks Hanson over anti-Muslim slurs
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Nationals senator Matt Canavan has attacked Pauline Hanson for suggesting there are no “good” Muslims as the Coalition’s new leadership tries to walk the line between wooing back One Nation voters and celebrating Australia’s multiculturalism.
Hanson unleashed during a Sky News appearance late on Monday while discussing the IS brides and children seeking repatriation to Australia, making comments even her star recruit, Barnaby Joyce, would not clearly endorse on Tuesday.
“Their religion concerns me because what it says in the Koran … they hate Westerners,” Hanson said.
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