Shocking News: This One Nation Candidate Has Said Some Awful Things About Muslims
Kate McCulloch cut her teeth campaigning against Muslim schools.
A heads up, in case you’re thinking about voting for a One Nation candidate this election: turns out their lead Senate candidate in NSW has a bit of a history of saying terrible things about Muslims.
Kate McCulloch, who has been described as “the next Pauline Hanson” even though Pauline Hanson is well and truly alive, describes herself on the One Nation website as a “businesswoman with a long family history of farming”. She’s echoed Pauline Hanson in saying that “Australians need politicians with the guts to say what you’re thinking”.
Historically, though, McCulloch seems to have leaned towards saying what she’s thinking, and not all of it has been fair dinkum. Actually, around a decade ago she helped lead a campaign to oppose a proposed Islamic school in Camden. She rocked up to council meetings wearing an Akubra decked out in Australian flags, and made her views on Muslims very clear.
“The community don’t want them here,” she said at the time, as you can see in the video below. “They don’t like what their culture is about. We know what their culture’s about — look at every news channel overseas! It’s about oppression, and it’s just not democratic.”
In another media appearance, she went further. “Muslims do not fit in in this town,” she said. She described Muslims as “wrecking Australia”, “taking us over”, alleged that “they’ve got terrorists amongst them”, and complained that “we can’t see them when they wear their habibs” (it seems the word she was actually going for was “niqab”. “Habib” is not even close).
Anyway, McCulloch hasn’t had much to say about Muslims this election season, so we reached out to her to see if her views have changed at all. We also reached out to One Nation to ask whether their endorsement of McCulloch is an endorsement of her views. Neither McCulloch nor One Nation got back to us, but we’ll update this story if they do.
After all, McCulloch has been out on the campaign trail decrying attacks on her party, and saying things like “the most important thing of all, folks, is we’re not out there bullying and doing disgraceful things like what they’re doing to our party. We’re above that, okay? I would never stoop to their level“. If that’s true, it would be nice for her to prove it.