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One Nation keeps Bonds despite 'replacement' remarks
NSW One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds has doubled down on claims Australians are being 'demographically replaced', but his party shows no sign of removing him from the ticket.
In brief
NSW One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds has doubled down on claims Australians are being 'demographically replaced', but his party shows no sign of removing him from the ticket. One Nation upper house candidate Stuart Bonds made comments about demographic replacement that drew criticism from Labor and the Coalition, but…
Bonds speaks at anti-immigration rally
One Nation's lead NSW upper house candidate Stuart Bonds told a Sydney rally on Sunday that Australians are being demographically replaced inside their own nation.
“Make no mistake, we are being demographically replaced inside our own nation.”
Bonds invokes replacement theory
Bonds said if Australians don't support Australian mothers having Australian children, they will pay for other cultures' children to be brought up in their lands.
“If we don't support Australian mothers having Australian children, we [are] going to pay for other cultures' children to be brought up in our lands.”
Bonds doubles down on podcast
On Monday, Bonds appeared on a podcast with rally organiser the Australian Lobby Group and did not challenge claims that Labor was building ethnic voting blocks.
Bonds cites immigration statistics
In an ABC interview on Wednesday, Bonds cited Australian Bureau of Statistics data showing overseas-born Australians rose from ten percent in nineteen forty-five to thirty-two percent in twenty twenty-five.
Labor premier calls remarks racist
NSW Premier Chris Minns called Bonds' comments frankly outrageous and racist. Labor passed motions in both houses censuring Bonds, who is not yet a member.
“frankly outrageous and racist”
Coalition says language is divisive
Opposition leader Kellie Sloane said Bonds' language was clearly divisive but did not rule out a confidence and supply arrangement with One Nation after the March state election.
“clearly divisive”
One Nation shows no sign of dumping him
One Nation has shown no signs of taking Bonds off the ticket for the twenty twenty-seven NSW state election, though the Victorian branch disendorsed a lower-house candidate over an old social media post.
Bonds likely to be elected
The quota for upper house election is four point five percent. With One Nation polling in the high twenties and low thirties, Bonds is all but guaranteed to be elected.
Newman defends Bonds as patriotic
One Nation leader Mike Newman called Bonds a patriotic Australian and coalminer with strong views pushing to protect Australian values and assimilation.
“What I will say is that what Stuart Bonds is a patriotic Aussie. He's a coalminer. He has very, very strong views.”
Deputy premier criticises comments
Deputy Premier Prue Car, who has Indian heritage and represents Londonderry, gave an impassioned critique of Bonds' comments in question time on Tuesday.
“Who's he [Bonds] talking about when he talks about this? I tell you who he's talking about, he's talking about families like mine, and families that I represent.”
Bonds downplays Coalition concerns
Bonds told the ABC that if the Coalition has a problem with facts, a preference deal may be jeopardised, but he is not here to impress the Coalition.
“If the Coalition have a problem with facts, the same as the Labor party, then maybe it will. But I'm not here to impress the Coalition.”
Here's the gist
One Nation upper house candidate Stuart Bonds made comments about demographic replacement that drew criticism from Labor and the Coalition, but the party is keeping him on the ticket for the March 2027 NSW election.
