Government’s response to 54 recommendations made by the special envoy to combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, includes new education taskforce and federal police social cohesion team.
Albanese did not comment specifically on Hanson’s remarks when invited to by Malik but said the One Nation leader “has been undermining social cohesion for 30 years”.
“The movement away from the White Australia Policy wasn’t just the Labor government of Gough Whitlam,” Albanese said. “It was actually a bipartisan position. That began in the 1960s, and that was a good thing.”