One Nation Pauline Hanson has been slammed as “completely racist” after labelling Indigenous Australians “the most primitive race on earth”.

The One Nation leader made the comments during an interview with the JJ Podcast a year ago, where she criticised the study of Indigenous history in schools.

“Teaching about Aboriginal cultural language. For what? What? What the hell have they done in this country?,” she told the podcast.

“What are we actually holding up? A few, you know, paintings.

“Sorry, the most primitive race on Earth, and we’re supposed to be holding up and saying what they’ve achieved. They’ve achieved nothing.”

The JJ Podcast says it is “a no-nonsense look at what’s really going on in Australia … unpacking politics, media and culture through real conversation with people shaping the country”.

Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said Hanson had “no respect whatsoever”.

“It’s totally outrageous, completely racist, but it also divides our country in a way that we do not want to see happen right here in Australia,” she said at Parliament House on Monday.

“I do believe that, as all Australians, we have to stand up and stand out against such divisive commentary … that is not the Australia I know.

“It is not the Australia I want to see and I call on all Australians to condemn such commentary.”

Independent senator Lidia Thorpe urged Hanson to consider the “real harm” her commentary could cause.

“We know she won’t change. She will continue to spread nasty, poorly informed and harmful ideas to rally her base and divide this country,” she said.

Thorpe called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to “step up” and tackle racism.

“Pauline Hanson is running circles around them (Labor), spreading damaging and divisive ideas while this government sits on its hands,” she said.

Liberal frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said she was disappointed at Hanson’s comments. Nampijinpa Price said the issues were “serious debates”, but Hanson had dragged it into “appalling territory”.

“All decent Australians, I’m sure, would condemn such comments and would rightfully be shocked that they came from the leader of a political party,” Nampijinpa Price says.

“Some of the issues raised by Pauline Hanson are serious debates, many of which I have been very vocal about, but yet again, Senator Hanson has dragged the conversation into appalling territory.

“It is a demonstration of wilful ignorance on her part and reveals her complete failure to understand Australia’s First Peoples.”

It is the third critical storm to engulf Hanson in the past week. She has refused to apologise for a video she posted to social media labelled Liberal MP and former special forces soldier Andrew Hastie a “traitor”, and for criticising Albanese’s mother for living in public housing for several decades.

Labor cabinet minister Tanya Plibersek said there seemed to be no limit to who Hanson was willing to “kick down”, questioning the basis of her comments on Indigenous culture.

“If you don’t take the time to learn about a culture, you’ve got no right to to call it primitive,” Plibersek told News24.

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