Greens demand hate speech by MPs be stamped out after Christchurch massacre

Richard Di Natale warns Fraser Anning ‘is not a lone voice in our parliament’ and calls for code of conduct

The Greens have cited the rightwing terrorist attack in Christchurch to renew calls for a parliamentary code of conduct to stamp out hate speech, a push also backed by Australia’s peak Muslim body.

Richard Di Natale has written to Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten warning that the extreme rightwing nationalist senator Fraser Anning – who blamed the attack on Muslim immigration – “is not a lone voice in our parliament” and more needs to be done to prevent “hateful rhetoric”.

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