David Oldfield, the co-founder of One Nation, has made the extraordinary claim that Aboriginal culture "should have died out", and compared it to the Stone Age.
Oldfield made the comments while appearing on the SBS television program First Contact, which aired on Tuesday.
It's the second season of the controversial program, which takes six non-indigenous Australians and places them in Aboriginal communities around Australia for four weeks to challenge their notions of Indigenous culture and people.
Oldfield, who co-founded One Nation with Pauline Hanson and helped her get elected to federal parliament on an anti-Asian and anti-Aboriginal campaign in 1996, said he believed Aboriginal culture should have "died out like the Stone Age" and that it's "not good for Aborigines to remain Aborigines".
"There's just been too much BS about Aboriginality, culture: 60,000, 80,000, 50,000 years, there's just too much BS attached to that," Oldfield said.
"Is there something celebratory that you lived in the Stone Age longer than anyone else?
"It's not actually good for Aborigines to remain Aborigines – they should be Australians and you just naturally let it die out. I mean frankly, it should have died out, like the Stone Age died out."
It comes in the same week that Pauline Hanson made the claim that there is no definition of an Aboriginal person and that anyone can become Aboriginal by marrying an Aboriginal person.
"What defines an Aboriginal? You know there’s no definition to an Aboriginal,” Hanson said. "If you marry an Aboriginal you can be classified as an Aboriginal or if the community or the elders accept you into that community you can be defined as an Aboriginal."
First Contact continues tonight on SBS and NITV.
