Minns Calls One Nation Candidate's Rally Remarks "Frankly Outrageous and Racist"
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has described the rally comments of Stuart Bonds, One Nation's lead upper house candidate for the 2027 state election, as "frankly outrageous and racist." The state government has also passed motions in both houses of parliament censuring Bonds, a formal statement of disapproval. Bonds is not yet a member of parliament.
Bonds made the remarks at a Sydney anti-immigration rally. He said: "Make no mistake, we are being demographically replaced inside our own nation." He also said: "If we don't support Australian mothers having Australian children, we are going to pay for other cultures' children to be brought up in our lands." In the same speech he described a plan as "the socialist plan, is to destroy and bring down and tear down the fabric of your civilisation."
On a podcast with the Australian Lobby Group, the organiser of the rally, Bonds was asked about ethnic voting blocks. He replied: "that's why we're going to get rid of all of the multicultural grants, right?"
NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane said Bonds' language was "clearly divisive." Sloane also did not rule out working with One Nation after the March state election. She said: "We will not form a coalition with One Nation, [but] we'll work with anyone post-election if we're in a minority government." A minority government is one that does not hold a majority of seats, so it depends on support from other members to pass key votes.
In an interview with ABC Upper Hunter, Bonds cited figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the national statistics agency. He said the share of Australians born overseas had risen from 10 per cent in 1945 to 32 per cent in 2025.
One Nation has given no sign that it will remove Bonds from its ticket for the 2027 election, despite criticism of his comments. The party's Victorian branch has previously disendorsed, meaning withdrew its backing from, a lower house candidate over an old social media post describing Hitler as the GOAT, short for "greatest of all time."
