Australia’s most incendiary right-wing politician has once again been accused of racism after describing Indigenous people as the “most primitive race on Earth”.

In a podcast recorded last year that resurfaced on Monday, Pauline Hanson, senator for the state of Queensland, was asked about the teaching of Indigenous Australian history in schools.

She said: “What the hell have they done in this country for, you know, supposedly 60,000 years? They never invented the wheel. There was nothing there. What are we actually holding up? A few, you know, rock paintings. Sorry, they’re the most primitive race on Earth. They’ve achieved nothing.”

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