The former coalminer’s claim Australians are being ‘demographically replaced’ sparked wide criticism, but his party has shown no signs of dumping him
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In a Facebook video from a Sydney anti-immigration rally on Sunday, as a man dressed like a medieval knight watches on, One Nation leader upper house candidate Stuart Bonds launches into a speech against “mass” migration.
“Make no mistake, we are being demographically replaced inside our own nation,” he says.
“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.”
In an apparent allusion to the “great replacement theory”, a far-right conspiracy theory that white westerners are being actively “replaced” by non-white immigrants, he continued: “That’s the socialist plan, is to destroy and bring down and tear down the fabric of your civilisation.”
The comments sparked a wave of criticism, but the party has shown no signs of taking Bonds off the ticket for the 2027 New South Wales state election. One Nation did, however, dump one candidate this week: the Victorian branch disendorsed a lower-house candidate over an old social media post describing Hitler as the GOAT, an acronym for the greatest of all time.
