Australia's Senate condemns lawmaker over anti-Muslim comments after New Zealand massacre

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Australia's Senate condemns lawmaker FraserAnning over anti-Muslim comments after NewZealandTerroristAttack

SYDNEY - Australia's Senate censured an independent right-wing lawmaker on Wednesday for his comments that New Zealand's mosques shooting massacre which left 50 people dead was a result of letting"Muslim fanatics" migrate to the country.

"Just a week before I joined this place, he gave a speech calling for a ban on people like me coming to this country." A censure motion has no direct legal consequences but acts as an expression of the Senate's disapproval.

 

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