Pauline Hanson’s comments about Indigenous Australians condemned as ‘nasty’ and ‘derogatory’

Senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Malarndirri McCarthy have both strongly condemned Pauline Hanson’s comments. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Federal parliamentarians from across the political spectrum have joined in condemning resurfaced comments by Pauline Hanson as “nasty” and “derogatory”, after she labelled Indigenous Australians the “most primitive race on Earth”.

The Indigenous affairs minister, Malarndirri McCarthy, a Yanyuwa and Garrwa woman, described the One Nation senator’s comments as “totally outrageous” while her opposition counterpart, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, said Hanson’s comments showed “wilful ignorance” and had “dragged the conversation into appalling territory”.