The nasty racial controversy that was started by an Australian Greens MP of Pakistani descent refusing to mourn the Queen’s death has intensified, and Mark Latham is now striking out at an independent who stood up for her.
Within hours of the Queen’s passing, deputy Greens leader Mehreen Faruqi stated that she was unable to grieve the death of a racist empire that was constructed with the stolen lives, property, and resources of colonised peoples.
After immigrating to Australia in 1992, she was promptly called out by Pauline Hanson for “taking advantage” of the country and urged to “pack your bags and p*** off back to Pakistan.”
However, Independent MP Sophie Scamp, a former Sydney GP turned politician, called out Hanson’s vicious burn.
The Mackellar MP responded to Hanson by writing, “So incorrect.”
“From whence does this animosity for others come? We all come from someplace else, with the exception of our First Nations people,’ Dr. Scamp said on Twitter.
Dr. Scamp’s assertion that “we all originated from someplace else” was disputed by Latham.
He told Daily Mail Australia, “That’s simply factually untrue.”
Dr. Sophie Scamp, a general practitioner in Northern Beaches, backed Mehreen Faruqi, calling Pauline Hanson’s vicious attack on the deputy Greens leader of Pakistani descent “very wrong.”
“I am a native Australian; I was born here, and I have lived here for 61 years. I have never desired to live anyplace else for even the tiniest fraction of a second.”
“I have always thought of myself as Australian.” Also born here were my parents and grandparents.
Latham tweeted Dr. Scamp a response that said, “I come from Crown Street Hospital, Sydney, not abroad.”
One social media user responded to Dr. Scamp’s remarks by pointing out that all currently sitting Australian senators pledged loyalty to the Queen when they entered parliament.
According to Latham (left), the argument that “we all originate from someplace else” is “factually false” and that Ms. Faruqi had humiliated the Queen needlessly.
This loyalty has been modified since King Charles took the oath of office.
“I, do swear that I will well and sincerely serve the people of Australia in the office of (position), and that I will be loyal to and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles the Third, King of Australia,” it now says. God, please assist me.
Latham said that Ms. Faruqi had humiliated the Queen needlessly.
Republican, I don’t favour the monarchy, but a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother recently passed away, so if you can’t say anything kind, say nothing, he remarked.
“Saying nothing isn’t all that difficult.”
Latham, a Republican, said that the Queen’s service was “flawless.”
You must recognise that she spent 70 years, not seven months or seven years, dedicating her life to public service.
“She served her country and the Commonwealth with extraordinary and honourable service.”
Ms. Faruqi was allowed to reconsider her “residential choices,” according to Latham.
I don’t see anything wrong with attempting to assist her with housing decisions. She’s already had a few, so maybe she should return to the first one?
Given that Ms. Faruqi is so dissatisfied with our nation, accusing it of being genocidal, racist, homophobic, and all the other things the Green Party claims, might it be helpful to remind people that she is originally from Pakistan and that, given how many things she finds to be unhappy about here, she might be happier there?
The British empire was criticised by Senator Ms. Faruqi last year for “enslaving millions of Black and Brown People over the World.”
However, observers have noted that Ms. Faruqi’s religion, Islam, has a lengthy history of colonisation, spanning Asia, North Africa, and Europe.
Hanson attacked Ms. Faruqi on social media on Saturday.
“Your attitude disgusts and appals me. You exploited Australia to the fullest when you emigrated here,’ Ms. Hanson said on Twitter.
You obtained citizenship, obtained employment in a parliament, and purchased several properties. It’s obvious that you’re unhappy, so get your stuff together and go back to Pakistan.
Jacqui Lambie, a senator from Tasmania, praised Hanson’s attack, saying, “Pauline is bang on the point!!!
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Jacqui Lambie, a senator from Tasmania, praised Hanson’s attack, saying, “Pauline is totally on the spot!”
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Some others said that Senator Lambie, an Aboriginal woman, shouldn’t be endorsing such rhetoric and ought to show greater empathy for Senator Faruqi’s concerns about Indigenous Australians.
“No, that’s not Jackie” (sic). How can a white Australian advise a black Australian to return to their place of origin? One person remarked, “I’m a white Australian appalled at what the crown has done in my country.
One more said, “No Jacqui! Simply no… To bash someone because they weren’t born here shows that she is a racist. It’s shabby and lazy.
Greens leader Adam Bandt and other Greens MPs used the Queen’s passing to make a variety of political points, including Ms. Faruqi’s article.
Only a few hours after the news of the monarch’s death spread, he said that it is now time to progress and establish a republic.
Mr. Bandt said in a tweet that it is now necessary to create a treaty with First Nations people.
Mr. Bandt, a fervent republican, will not hold news conferences with the Australian flag with the Union Jack corner behind him.