In an exchange posted on social media, Benjamin van der Linden from a group called Make Australia Christian Again asked Joyce if Australia was a Christian nation.

They are so creatively bankrupt they can only look to America and recycle the one time a slogan worked for them

Howe has praised Hanson’s call for a “monoculture”, saying it would include “immigrants like me and my family who assimilate and contribute to Australia”.

Howe is of Indian and Portuguese descent, and moved to Australia from England.

I love our multicultural society, where people from all different walks of life can come together to shit on each other