But he said this was dismantled when "[Gough] Whitlam and his hard-left cronies adopted Soviet-inspired United Nations treaties on discrimination and banned preferential selection of migrants based on their ethnicity". This had "allowed the cultural conquest of our nation", Senator Anning warned, bringing about "an insidious silent revolution". As a remedy, the Queensland senator proposed radical changes to Australia's immigration program, including a "drastic" cut to the annual migrant intake and the resumption of discrimination based on race. Senator Fraser Anning said a plebiscite on immigration would the "final solution to the immigration problem". Credit:Alex Ellinghausen "Diversity should be managed to remain compatible with social cohesion and national identity," he said. "We as a nation are entitled to insist that those who are allowed to come here predominantly reflect the historic European-Christian composition of Australian society."

Senator Anning took aim at Muslim migrants in particular, claiming they had proven to be the least able to assimilate and integrate into Australian society and other countries. He said a gun attack on a train in Broken Hill in 1915 was Australia's first terrorist incident and "Muslim immigrants have been a problem ever since". He said the reasons to ban Muslim immigration were "compelling and self-evident", labelling them welfare-bludgers and criminals, and spoke of "black African Muslim gangs terrorising Melbourne". "While all Muslims are not terrorists, certainly all terrorists these days are Muslims, so why would anyone want to bring more of them here?" Senator Anning asked. He advocated a plebiscite on immigration, calling it "the final solution to the immigration problem", and said he would be happy to abide by the result. While all Muslims are not terrorists, certainly all terrorists these days are Muslims, so why would anyone want to bring more of them here? Queensland senator Fraser Anning

The Senator's use of the words "final solution", sparked a storm of criticism. In Nazi Germany, the extermination of the Jewish people in Europe and beyond was known as "the final solution to the Jewish question". Labor frontbencher Chris Bowen said using those words was ''utterly unacceptable". "It has connotations and meanings to history which are deeply offensive to right-thinking people, not only in Australia but across the world," he told ABC Radio on Tuesday. Greens leader Richard Di Natale said if Senator Anning had a shred of decency he would apologise, saying using the same language as Nazis was vile, racist and bigoted.

But Senator Anning hit back at those claims, arguing left-wing politicians had taken him out of context to shut down debate on immigration. "As I called for a plebiscite on the immigration mix, this baseless and ridiculous criticism is simply an effort to play the man and not the ball," the Queensland senator said. He said it was ironic to be criticised by the same politicians who voted against his pro-Israel stances on funding the Palestinian Authority and moving Australia's embassy to Jerusalem. In his speech, Senator Anning also argued that Australia was "on the brink of irreversible change" if citizens failed to "rise up" and unleash a "cultural counter-revolution" against the subversion of Australian society. "We stand now at the turn of the tide. What we need is a cultural re-conquest of our own country," he said. "Ethnicity is not just skin-deep - more than anything else, it is our ethno-religious identity that defines us and shapes our nation and national identity."

Following the speech, Senator Anning shook hands with Coalition and Centre Alliance senators, as well as Australian Conservatives leader Cory Bernardi, Derryn Hinch and Tim Storer. Fraser Anning is congratulated by Cory Bernardi after delivering his first speech in the Senate. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen Senator Anning was declared elected in November last year to replace former One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts, who was found ineligible by the High Court as a dual British citizen. He quit One Nation upon taking his seat and later joined KAP, but did not make his first speech until Tuesday. The incendiary comments about immigration are reminiscent of Senator Hanson's first speech as an MP in 1996, when she infamously warned Australia was on the verge of being "swamped by Asians". Labor's Senate leader Penny Wong, who was born in Malaysia to an Australian mother and Malaysian father, repudiated Senator Anning's speech.