Australian far-right leader sparks outrage with ‘primitive’ Indigenous comments
Pauline Hanson drew widespread condemnation after a 2025 podcast resurfaced on Monday in which she called Indigenous people 'primitive' and that they had 'achieved nothing'.
Australian far-right political leader Pauline Hanson sparked outrage on Monday after describing Indigenous Australians as the "most primitive race on Earth" in a recent podcast interview. The comments from the Queensland senator for One Nation party drew swift condemnation from the country's Indigenous affairs minister, Malarndirri McCarthy, who called them "completely racist and outrageous."
Fellow Indigenous senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price expressed disappointment, stating that Hanson had dragged the conversation into "appalling territory." Despite the backlash, One Nation has continued to gain popularity, with recent polls showing that 27% of Australians would consider voting for the party, just one percentage point shy of the ruling Labor Party.
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