journal article ‘Swamped by Muslims’ and facing an ‘African Gang’ problem : racialized and religious media representations in Australia by Dr Enqi Weng and Professor Fethi Mansouri (May 2021) I was only going to highlight immigrant issues and leave the indigenous side alone. I am pro refugee and would like the essay to portray that. John Howard’s 2002 campaign used the ‘children overboard ‘ issue to justify the imprisonment of asylum seekers. One Nation’s 2016 campaign in which Pauline Hanson claimed Australia was being ‘Swamped by muslims’. The same words she used back in her political infancy. She simply replaced ‘Asians’ with ‘Muslims’
