In a provocative first speech to Parliament, Queensland senator Fraser Anning has called for a return to a "European Christian" immigration system and a ban on Muslims migrating to Australia.
The Katter's Australian Party senator's praise for the White Australia policy has been swiftly condemned as "vile" and "bile" by his parliamentary opponents.
"We as a nation are entitled to insist that those who are allowed to come here predominantly reflect the historic European-Christian composition of Australian society," he told the Upper House.
"Those who come here need to assimilate and integrate."
He said migrants should embrace the English language and Australian values, saying cultural diversity undermined social cohesion.
"Ethnocultural diversity ... has been allowed to rise to dangerous levels in many suburbs," he said.
"In direct response, self-segregation, including white flight from poorer inner-urban areas, has become the norm." [ABC] Read more
