Pauline Hanson calls for Australia's borders to be closed to 'stop spread of coronavirus'
One National leader Pauline Hanson has doubled down on her coronavirus warning and called for Australia's borders to be closed.
'We cannot be too cautious when dealing with such a contagious disease that’s killed far too many people across the globe already,' she wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
'If we reopen our borders to China ahead a vaccine being discovered, we will only cripple our own domestic tourism based on a sense of fear. '
Her Facebook post was inundated with comments within minutes.
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Pauline Hanson (pictured in federal parliament on Wednesday) is calling for tougher measures
Her views were inundated with support
'Yep, close it down. Safety before money. Unfortunately too many countries, like Australia, have relied too heavily on the Chinese economy, instead of protecting their own economies,' one person commented.
Another added: 'Yes we need to for at least a couple of weeks, then reassess the situation.'
But not everyone agreed.
'Closing borders temporarily could help but it isn't a permanent solution,' one commented.
Senator Hanson's latest rant comes after her controversial comments about Aboriginal people, where she said children who get raped should be taken away from their communities.
She slammed the federal government's Closing the Gap initiative to improve Aboriginal communities in a fiery speech in the senate on Wednesday.
Labor and Greens senators called her racist after she suggested Aboriginal people were addicted to 'grog and drugs' and failed to turn up to work or take their children to school.
But in an interview with Sky News host Paul Murray later that night, Senator Hanson stood by her views and said government efforts were not working.
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