Nationals leader Matt Canavan has said he doesn’t agree with podcast host Sam Bamford’s views but said “good on” him for expressing them, after Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price appeared on his 2 Worlds Collide podcast where he said the country was being flooded with “hundreds of thousands of Indians, Chinese, Africans, Middle Easterns, and Gazans”.
“I’m sick of this faux outrage that we see from time to time. I mean, I think the people are sick of it. Maybe the Labor Party should focus on getting its tax policies and budgets right, and stop watching Sam Bamford, Sam Bamford on 2 Worlds Collide,” Canavan said.
“I’ve been on that podcast, I don’t agree with everything Sam says, but he’s a good Australian, he’s served our country in war, he’s entitled to his views,” he told Sky News.
In the podcast featuring Price as guest, Bamford raised the idea of a remigration program – an extremist concept for deporting non-white migrants – and later admitted he sounded “heaps racist” as he pushed Price on his complaints that people with Anglo-Celtic and European backgrounds were losing majority status in Australia.
“Just because you go on someone’s podcast doesn’t mean you agree with everything they have to say, but we should have Australian politicians who are fearless to go on such new media. It is new media, it’s a new world,” Canavan said.
“Good on people like Sam for expressing the views that he has, and he’s got lots of followers, he’s very, very popular. So, why doesn’t the Labor Party go on Sam’s podcast and tell him where he’s all wrong. You know, I think people would watch that, so don’t be afraid, guys.”
