Australian senator uses Nazi phrase to call for ban on Muslim immigrants

Fraser Anning condemned across the political spectrum over ‘final solution’ demand

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Australian Muslims mark the Eid al-Adha festival with prayers inside a rugby ground in Western Sydney in 2016
(Image credit: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)

Australian politicians from across the spectrum have united to condemn a senator who employed Nazi terminology to call for a ban on Muslim immigrants.

Queensland senator Fraser Anning used his maiden speech in the upper chamber of the Australian Parliament, in Canberra, to accuse Muslim Australians of crime, welfare dependency and complicity in terrorism.

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