Linda Burney: Regarding Hanson, “You can’t excuse stupidity for ignorance..”

New elected Labor MP and first indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives has tabled Senator-elect Pauline Hanson as ignorant over her comments that Asians are “swamping” suburbs in western Sydney. Speaking on the ABC’s Lateline Ms Burney said “You can’t excuse stupidity for ignorance and that is what is being displayed.”

Since the election and Ms Hanson winning a spot in the Senate she has continued her racist and ignorant comments and is demanding that a royal commission be held into Islam.