ICYMI, Senator Fraser Anning, member of the Australian Katter Party, gave a controversial maiden speech last week in parliament where he suggested, "the final solution to the immigration problem is a popular vote".
On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver has now slammed the speech and the party saying, "That is just not a phrase that you want to throw around for pretty obvious reasons."
"It’s the same reason we don’t name babies Adolf anymore, or have tiny moustaches, or call yoga retreats concentration camps. We could — it’d make sense — but people would be understandably upset."
Oliver went on to roast Bob Katter, leader of the party who claimed Anning's speech was "solid gold".
"First, the speech was not solid gold, and I really hope in Australia you don’t have to go to university to have heard about the Holocaust," the comedian said.
Then going on to mimic Katter, Oliver says, "He bears no responsibility for the words he uses, he doesn’t even know what they mean."
"If you give 1000 monkeys 1000 typewriters and one of them wrote 'heil Hitler', would you get all angry with him? No, you’d be impressed, that’s a ‘solid gold’ monkey right there."
When asked about Anning's comments, Katter was also questioned whether the party was racist.
"Well we're Australian," Katter answered.
"I don't know if that's racist or not but we're not apologising for it, to anyone."
Oliver immediately came back to those questions saying he "could take this one…you are and it is".
"I'm not saying all Australians are racist — that would be racist — and I would never say something like that because I'm not Australian.
"But in fairness to Katter, he's not just racist, he's also homophobic."
This is not the first time Oliver has gone to town on Australian politics. Earlier in the year he pointed out the hypocrisy in the Barnaby Joyce scandal after Joyce opposed same-sex marriage due to his belief in "traditional family values". He also criticised the government's decision to spend the millions of dollars on the postal vote last year.
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