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Barnaby Joyce called on to apologise for Nazi Germany comparisons over Indigenous voice
Nationals MP said he was concerned about the government wanting to ‘reinsert racial distinctions’ into the constitution
Barnaby Joyce has been accused of making “ahistorical comparisons to Nazi Germany” in an interview about the Indigenous voice to parliament, with Labor MP Josh Burns calling on the former deputy prime minister to apologise.
- Josh Butler
- The Guardian
Joyce stood by his comments, made in a Sky News interview, saying he was concerned about the government wanting to “reinsert racial distinctions” into the constitution.
But a leading civil rights and Holocaust expert chided the National party MP for his remarks.
“Our language is…