‘Outrageous and racist’: premier responds to NSW One Nation candidate’s claim Australians are being ‘demographically replaced’

Chris Minns and race discrimination commissioner lambast comments made by Stuart Bonds, who leads party’s NSW upper house ticket

The New South Wales premier and the Australian Human Rights Commission have criticised comments by the man who heads One Nation’s upper house ticket in NSW after he said Australians faced demographic replacement unless “mass migration” was curtailed.

Chris Minns described Stuart Bonds’ comments as “frankly outrageous and racist”.

Minns said the replacement theory being espoused by Bonds was “just a conspiracy theory that’s been imported from the US here to Australia”.

Bonds will be the first candidate on the rightwing party’s NSW upper house ticket and on current polling is likely to be elected in March’s state election.