Countries who have tried a “final solution”?
The speech was abhorent but I do think that the final solution bit is being a bit overblown. I listened to the entire speech live yesterday and to be honest when I heard Josh Frydenberg talking about it being insulting to Jews this morning I was thinking "WTF is he on about?". It was only after the ABC news presenter explained that people were up in arms about it and replayed the sentence that I figured it out.
In having said that it is refreshing to see that there has been bi-partisan condemnation (and quickly) as the speech was as divisive and offensive as I have heard in either chamber. To be honest he made Pauline Hanson look like a saint in comparison (possibly because he was more articulate with his racist views). The only person that we haven't heard from is Bob Katter and I think we need to... Soon... He might be a bit wacky but this rhetoric is not in Bob's wheelhouse as far as I'm aware and he is is going to be in danger of guilt by association if he doesn't do something to address it.