Fraser Anning is standing by his maiden speech in the Senate in which he used the loaded term "final solution" to call for an end to Muslim immigration to Australia.  Practically everyone else in the Senate is condemning his speech.

The words "final solution" were infamously used by nazi Germany to describe the murders of six million Jews in what would be more properly described as The Holocaust.  In Anning's speech, it's a call to return to the discredited "White Australia" policy that limited immigration to those with a white, European background.

Anning's party boss Bob Katter said, "His speech was absolutely magnificent.  It is everything that this country should be doing," Katter told reporters in Cairns, repeating that he backs his running mate "1,000 percent".

But that's pretty much where support ends.  Crossbench senator Derryn Hinch, who shook Anning's hand after the incendiary speech, said: "I then went home and washed my own."  Hinch blasted Anning's words as one of the most "disgraceful, racist, homophobic, divisive, misogynist, spiteful hateful speeches" he had ever heard, and added it sounded like "Pauline Hanson on steroids".

Which brought indignation from the One Nation leader, who wasn't in the upper house when Anning spoke.  "I am appalled by Fraser Anning's speech," which she said was "straight from Goebbels' handbook from Nazi Germany".  After being compared to Anning, Hanson said she accepted Australia was "a multiracial society" and she had always advocated that "you do not have to be white to be Australian", which might be a surprise to her critics.  But she also blasted senators who shook Anning's hand and criticized him later.

Hanson supported a Greens move to censure Anning, but the coalition and Labor opposed it so as not to make a martyr or victim out of him.  Instead, the upper and lower houses passed motion's supporting Australia's non-discriminatory immigration policy.

Labor MP Anne Aly, who is a Muslim, broke down as she spoke in support of the resolutions; but she also expressed disgust at having to defend multiculturalism from attacks from racists:  "I'm tired of fighting, I'm tired of having to stand up against hate, against vilification, time and time and time again," Ms. Aly said.

Australia's first female Muslim senator Mehreen Faruqi slammed Fraser Anning as a "merchant of hate" who has "spat in the face of our successful multicultural society".  She is The Greens new senator for New South Wales, chosen to fill the casual vacancy left by the outgoing Lee Rhiannon.

"The use of the term 'final solution' is a disgusting and deliberate telegraph to appease people who hold deeply sickening and violent white supremacist views,' Ms. Faruqi said.  "It's pretty sad that such dangerous fringe and racist politics continue to make its way into debate but as a Senator I will call it out every time."

Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, who is Jewish, said the comments were "ignorant and insensitive" and that "they were hurtful and divisive". 

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten also branded Senator Anning's speech "racist" and described it as "repugnant and disgraceful".  he said, "I do not like seeing majorities pick on minorities," adding, "That is not the Australian way."

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said, "Let's be quite clear, those who seek to demonize all Muslims on the basis of the crimes of a tiny minority are helping the terrorists," adding, "The vast majority of the victims of Islamist terrorism are Muslims."

"Be very clear about this.  I say this as Prime Minister, whose most solemn responsibility is to keep Australians safe."