Politics · Australia · 14 hrs ago
NSW premier condemns One Nation candidate’s replacement theory remarks
One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds claimed Australians were being demographically replaced at an anti-immigration rally in Sydney.
Bonds is the first candidate on the party’s New South Wales upper house ticket and is likely to be elected in the state poll, according to current polling.
He argued that migration and falling birth rates threatened Australia’s culture and identity.
Premier Chris Minns called the remarks outrageous and racist, and said the replacement idea was a conspiracy theory imported from the United States.
Australia’s race discrimination commissioner said blaming migrants for complex problems risks fuelling division and racism.
Federal ministers also criticised the speech, saying migrants are part of Australia and questioning their belonging is harmful.
The comments come ahead of the March 2027 state election, where One Nation is polling strongly, though the sources do not say what action will follow.
Stuart Bonds, One Nation’s lead candidate for the New South Wales upper house, said Australians were being “demographically replaced” at an anti-immigration rally in Sydney.
Premier Chris Minns called Bonds’ remarks “frankly outrageous and racist” and said the replacement theory was a conspiracy imported from the United States.
The Australian Human Rights Commission’s race discrimination commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman, said claims that migrants are to blame for Australia’s challenges risk fuelling division and racism.
Bonds said mass migration should be curtailed and argued that Australia should support Australian mothers having Australian children.
The remarks came ahead of the NSW state election scheduled for March 2027.
- Who
- Stuart Bonds, One Nation’s lead candidate for the NSW upper house, made the remarks. Chris Minns and other officials criticised them.
- What
- Bonds invoked demographic replacement at an anti-immigration rally. Critics described the claim as racist and a conspiracy theory.
- When
- Sunday, the weekend before the articles were published on November 9, 2026.
- Where
- An anti-immigration rally in Sydney’s central business district.
- Why
- Bonds argued that mass migration should be curtailed and that Australia should support Australian mothers having Australian children.
Stuart Bonds
Chris Minns and Giridharan Sivaraman
Replacement and migration
Stuart Bonds
Bonds said Australians were being demographically replaced and called for mass migration to be curtailed.
Chris Minns and Giridharan Sivaraman
Minns called the claim a conspiracy theory and racist; Sivaraman said blaming migrants risks fuelling division and racism.
Belonging
Stuart Bonds
Bonds said he did not accept that an immigrant arriving yesterday was as Australian as he was.
Chris Minns and Giridharan Sivaraman
Sivaraman said the idea that migrants can never truly be Australian ignores the country’s history and shared future.
Bonds spoke at an anti-immigration rally in Sydney and said Australians were being demographically replaced.
Minns criticised Bonds’ remarks as racist and reliant on a conspiracy theory.
Race discrimination commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman said blaming migrants for Australia’s challenges risks fuelling division, exclusion and racism.
The NSW state election is scheduled to take place.
- Candidate
- Stuart Bonds, One Nation’s lead NSW upper house candidate
- Rally location
- Sydney central business district
- Rally attendance
- Several hundred people, according to Guardian Australia
- Premier’s response
- Chris Minns called the remarks “frankly outrageous and racist
- Polling
- Resolve polling showed 25 per cent of NSW voters intended to vote for One Nation in March
- Election
- NSW state election scheduled for March 2027
2 sources
What people are saying
Make no mistake, we are being demographically replaced inside our own nation
frankly outrageous and racist
The idea that migrants can never truly be Australian ignores both our history and our shared future.
The ‘great replacement theory’ is a widely discredited far-right, nationalist conspiracy with antisemitic roots.