Pauline Hanson laments end of White Australia policy and talks up daughter’s leadership potential

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has bemoaned the end of the White Australia policy in an interview with far-right activist Tommy Robinson in the UK. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP View image in fullscreen One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has bemoaned the end of the White Australia policy in an interview with far-right activist Tommy Robinson in the UK. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP Pauline Hanson laments end of White Australia policy and talks up daughter’s leadership potential Appearing on a podcast with the far-right UK activist who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, Hanson makes evidence-free claims about migrants Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Pauline Hanson has used an interview with the far-right British activist Tommy Robinson to blame the end of the White Australia policy for creating what she sees as problems with migration and said her daughter, Lee Hanson, was the future of One Nation. The One Nation leader, who is visiting the UK for a series of conference appearances and a holiday with her billionaire benefactor Gina Rinehart , appeared on an episode of Robinson’s podcast on Friday, repeating unsubstantiated claims about the spread of sharia law and accusing Muslim communities, without evidence, of rorting the national disability insurance scheme. “A lot of them are ripping the system off who are a lot from the Muslim areas and they’re getting on the scheme,” she said of the national disability insurance scheme. “But there’s a lot of Aussies too, other Aussies, so I’m not just going to pick them out, but it is quite known that in the Muslim streets you’ve got a quite a lot in that street who are on the NDIS scheme.” The health minister, Mark Butler , rejected Hanson’s claims about Muslim communities and the NDIS on Friday morning. “I’m not sure where Ms Hanson is getting her figures from but they’ve never been provided to me as the minister for disability and the minister for the NDIS,” he told ABC radio. “I’m loath to respond to a podcast between Ms Hanson and this convicted criminal, who frankly has been disowned by so many leading figures on the right.” Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has a string of criminal convictions and has become too politically toxic for mainstream figures in Britain, including the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage. Hanson used the hour-long interview to blame the Whitlam government for changing Australia’s immigration mix in the 1970s. As prime minister Gough Whitlam removed the final vestiges of the racist White Australia policy but the Holt government started dismantling the post-federation policy favouring white migrants as early as the 1960s. On the podcast, Robinson singled out particular migrant groups and asks Hanson about the “changing face of Australia due to Islamic immigration … how have you ended up with Pakistanis, Somalis, all of these African problems