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Pauline Hanson has labeled one-time Labor chief turned One Nation MP Mark Latham’s homophobic slur in direction of a fellow MP “disgusting”, and urged him to apologise.
Ms Hanson, who appeared at an anti-transgender rally final week in Canberra, took to Twitter on Thursday to sentence Mr Latham’s homophobic assault.
“I would like you to know I do not condone them (Mr Latham’s phrases) and neither do my members of parliament or get together associates,” she mentioned.
“I believe they’re disgusting”.
Mr Latham joined Pauline Hanson’s One Nation get together in 2018. He was voted in once more in his higher home seat within the NSW election on Saturday.
She mentioned she tried ringing the firebrand MP “a few instances to no avail” asking him to difficulty a public apology.
“It’s now over to Mark to reply the individuals”.
Mr Latham’s tweet was posted in response to an article during which Sydney unbiased MP Alex Greenwich referred to as the NSW One Nation chief “a disgusting human being” after LGBTQI protesters had been focused exterior an occasion Mr Latham was talking at.
“Disgusting?” Mr Latham mentioned, earlier than disparagingly describing sexual acts in a mocking tone.
The tweet, posted shortly after 10am on Thursday, was deleted inside a number of hours, however not earlier than a number of Twitter customers took display pictures and reposted the remark.
Mr Greenwich advised AAP he wouldn’t be commenting on the matter.
NSW Labor higher home chief Penny Sharpe mentioned she was “bodily sickened” by the now-deleted tweet, during which Mr Latham made feedback about Mr Greenwich’s sexuality.
“Homophobia is all the time unacceptable and there may be by no means an excuse,” she mentioned.
“Mr Latham ought to apologize to Alex Greenwich instantly.”
AAP has contacted Mr Latham for remark.
Mr Greenwich earlier criticized Mr Latham after a whole lot of individuals attacked LGBTQI activists exterior a church in south-west Sydney within the lead-up to the NSW election.
The small group of peaceable protesters had been surrounded and threatened by ‘Christian Lives Matter’ activists exterior the occasion in Belfield, the place Mr Latham had been invited to discuss parental rights.
Three males had been charged following the incident.
“Nobody ought to take the regulation into their very own palms. Violence at political occasions is incorrect,” Mr Latham tweeted on the time.
-AAP
