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Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack has continued to come under fire for calling the U.S Black Lives Matter protests 'racial riots', and using the term 'All Lives Matter' when defending his comments. On Monday, Mr McCormack told ABC Radio the violence at Capitol Hill, which left five people dead, was 'unfortunate' and 'similar to those race riots that we saw around the country last year.' Today he doubled down on the remarks, saying both the Black Lives Matter movement and the Washington riots should be 'condemned'. "It involves violence. It involves the destruction of property. It involv...

The acting prime minister has urged unemployed Aussies to ‘turn off Netflix’ and go bush to find ‘fun’ and ‘well-paying’ jobs in fruit-picking.

ADVERTISEMENT However, McCormack on Tuesday made several appearances on television and radio to signal he was standing by his remarks.  “Amnesty International and others — and I appreciate there are a lot of people out there who are being a bit bleeding-heart about this and who are confecting outrage — but they should know those lives matter too,” McCormack told reporters, according to the AP. “All lives matter,” he added. “People shouldn’t have to go to a protest and lose their life.” McCormack’s comments continued to draw criticism from advocacy groups, with Amnesty Int...

ABORIGINAL groups condemned Australia’s acting prime minister today for comparing the Black Lives Matter movement with the riot at the US Capitol building last week. On Monday Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, filling in for Prime Minister Scott Morrison who is away on holiday, said on Monday that the Washington DC insurrection that claimed five lives was “similar to those race riots that we saw around the country last year.” “Amnesty International and others — and I appreciate there are a lot of people out there who are being a bit bleeding-heart about this and who are con...

Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack says Twitter has gone too far in removing Donald Trump from its platform.