2025-07-14
Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Anti-Racism, has responded to reports about family donations to far-right group, Advance.
Senator Faruqi said:
“Advance is a dangerous far-right organisation responsible for spreading racist, anti-immigrant, and Islamophobic disinformation and hate. This disinformation causes real-life harm to First Nations people and other people of colour and marginalised groups in this country.
“The Prime Minister has questions to answer as to what due diligence was conducted prior to Ms Segal’s appointment and whether an investigation is being conducted into any perceived conflicts of interest under the APS Code of Conduct.
“These revelations just add to the problems of an antisemitism report that does more to stifle free speech than to protect minority groups. Ms Segal’s position is fast becoming untenable, and the whole system of ‘envoys’ is redundant when we already have a Race Discrimination Commissioner empowered to combat all forms of racism.
“If the Prime Minister was serious about tackling racism - in all its forms - his government would commit to urgently funding and implementing the National Anti-Racism Framework, which provides a blueprint for an anti-racist Australia that protects everyone: First Nations people, Jews, Muslims, and other racialised minorities.”