Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter’s Australia tour to feature controversial Senator Fraser Anning
CONTROVERSIAL Senator Fraser Anning was condemned for his “racist” maiden speech just weeks ago. Now, he’s set to join alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on his Australian tour.
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EX-One Nation Senator Fraser Anning - whose “racist” maiden speech made international headlines last month - will join right wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on a speaking tour of Australia later this year.
The senator, whose controversial maiden speech drew widespread condemnation for referencing Nazi term ‘the final solution’ and all but calling for a return to the White Australia policy and a ban on Muslim migration, has announced he will be joining the tour with Mr Yiannopoulos and conservative commentator Ann Coulter in November and December.
The tour website shows two more mystery speakers have yet to be revealed.
Meanwhile, Mr Yiannopoulos is under fire for refusing to pay a $50,000 bill for extra police resources when violent protests broke out outside at his Melbourne show last year.
Punters will pay between $79 and $499 for tickets to the two-hour sessions with Yiannopoulos and Coulter on the Gold Coast, in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in November and December.
Senator Anning told News Corp today he would not be accepting payment for his appearances on the tour.
He intends to speak at all events.
The events in the Gold Coast and Melbourne coincide with days Parliament is sitting but the Senator said his appearance would be subject to his parliamentary obligations.
He indicated his speech would be similar to his maiden speech to Parliament, which attracted international headlines last month and, he believes, inspired Ms Coulter and Mr Yiannopoulos to ask him to join the tour.
“My theme will be the cultural unravelling of Australia over the last 40 years, including the threat of multiculturalism to social cohesion, the need to preserve our predominantly European Judeo-Christian identity and the urgent necessity of a plebiscite to allow the Australian people to decide who comes here in the future,” Senator Anning said.
“I was delighted and honoured to be asked to participate in a speaking tour with such eminent conservative commentators.
“I see this as a tremendous opportunity to communicate my message on the crisis facing our nation.”
Earlier today, Senator Anning took to social media today to declare the government needed to deport African gang members and their families “immediately” and that “some cultures” were “not fit” for Australia shortly after announcing via Twitter he would be joining Ms Coulter and Mr Yiannopoulos on their tour.
“Two hundred Africans brawl on the street in Melbourne and one person is run down by a car - this is yet another example of African violence in Melbourne and a reminder that some cultures are not fit for Australia,” he said regarding a massive violent brawl in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Collingwood on Sunday which largely involved African Australian and Pacific Islander youths.
Despite widespread condemnation from fellow MPs - including his ex-boss Pauline Hanson - for his maiden speech, Senator Anning has refused to apologise for causing offence to the Jewish community by using the Nazi term ‘the final solution’.
The senator has denied he meant it as a reference to the Nazi’s plan “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question”, which led to the mass genocide of Jewish people in Europe, and has insisted he is not anti-Semitic.
During the speech, he said: “The final solution to the immigration problem of course is a popular vote.”
But both he and party leader Bob Katter have doubled down on their call to ban Muslim migration.
Then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull condemned his speech last month as “appalling” during a powerful speech to Parliament, while Opposition leader Bill Shorten called it a “speech filled with prejudice”.
Senator Hanson also said she was “appalled” by her former senator’s remarks, saying he went “too far”.
The One Nation leader claimed a front-row seat at Mr Yiannopoulos’s talk at Parliament House in Canberra last year, where he predicted the rise of an alt-right movement in Australia within five to ten years during his inflammatory speech and made controversial statements about Muslims and discrimination against women.
Victorian Police Minister Lisa Neville has called on Mr Yiannopoulos to foot the bill for the up to 300 police who were called in to break up protests at his Melbourne show last year before he returns to the city on December 5.
“Invoicing commercial event organisers is a matter for Victoria Police, but taxpayers shouldn’t front up where this individual has failed to do so, particularly when he is spreading messages of hate and division,” she told News Corp.
“It’s important to remember that the individual in question made a lot of money from his last tour and it was the Victorian taxpayer who had to foot the bill for his lack of organisation with Victoria Police.”
Ms Coulter, an American conservative commentator, formerly a strong Donald Trump supporter and author of 12 best-selling books, is less well known in Australia but she has recently been forced to cancel speaking engagements in the US amid protests.
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