Milo Yiannopoulos speaks at Parliament House during Australian Troll Academy Tour
MILO Yiannopoulos has given an incendiary talk where One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was in the front row, and Malcolm Roberts caught him off guard with a curly question.
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MILO Yiannopoulos has given an incendiary talk at Parliament House where One Nation leader Pauline Hanson claimed a front-row seat.
His hour-long Q&A session was also attended by documentary maker John Safran, Coalition MP George Christensen and former One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts, who asked him what Adolf Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, had in common with Islamic religious text the Koran.
Yiannopoulos forecast the rise of a Trump-like alt-right movement in Australia within five to ten years during the talk, while airing controversial views about Muslims and discrimination against women.
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He later had lunch with Senator Hanson at Parliament.
He arrived at the exclusive Parliament House dining room venue to applause as well as cries of “shame” and “you shouldn’t be here”.
It comes after violent protests outside his Melbourne Troll Academy show last night where a police officer was injured.
Yiannopoulos condemned the clash between protesters in Melbourne during his talk.
“It’s always the left that starts it, it’s often conservatives that finish it but I don’t like it when either side does it — my preferred future is zero tolerance to violent protest,” he said.
He also clashed with journalists over his brand, whether he believed what he was saying and Australia’s high rates of domestic violence against women.
Domestic violence was not a “gendered problem” and men were victims as often as women, he said, while slamming feminists for perpetuating myths about a wage gap and rape culture on college campuses.
“Rape rates have been collapsing for 30 years, we should be hugely proud of that, but feminists lie about it and claim that we’re experiencing some sort of explosion of bad behaviour towards women,” he said.
“I think it’s probably because they think the rest of us are like their men — all Weiners, Weinsteins and Spaceys.
“The libertarian conservative guys I know are pretty respectful of women.”
Yiannopoulos said a backlash against “social justice warriors” espousing political correctness on the “progressive left” was on the rise in Australia, as it was in America, while fielding questions from One Nation supporters.
He was initially caught off guard by Roberts’ question on Hitler’s book and the Koran but said the books did not have much in common beyond the authoritarian directive to people on how they should live.
But he encouraged everyone to read Hitler’s book because people “should read the very, very worst as well as the very, very best that has been thought and written”.
“If we don’t know the past we are doomed to repeat it,” he said.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was given priority seats along with her chief-of-staff James Ashby and her fellow senators.
Mr Roberts, who was ousted in the citizenship saga, attended at Hanson’s invitation, wearing a visitors pass.
Earlier today, Yiannopoulos described left-wing activists caught up in violent protests outside his Melbourne show last night as “petulant babies”.
The Herald Sun reports a police officer was injured in the five-hour clash between right and left-wing activists.
“The left really showed us who they are,” Yiannopoulos said on Sydney radio station 2GB this morning.
“They didn’t just come for people lining up to see my talk ... they attacked other people, they attacked journalists, Sky News journalists.
“They showed us who they are — petulant babies, who throw their toys on the ground.”
Yiannopoulos spoke at Parliament House today at the invitation of Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm.
Politicians, media, staffers and supporters were invited to the speech.
The senator has made it clear he doesn’t agree with all of Yiannopoulos’s views but is a passionate advocate for free speech.
“He is able to outrage people who I think are silly — the Greens, lefties in general,” Senator Leyonhjelm told reporters at parliament.
“Some of the people who don’t like him are idiots, and violent idiots into the bargain, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they engage in something stupid but hopefully security people in parliament are prepared for it.”
The Australian Greens earlier unsuccessfully attempted to have Yiannopoulos banned from Parliament given his views on women, Muslims and transgender individuals.
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