One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts

One Nation branch official John Drew has repeatedly posted deeply offensive and racist language about Aboriginal people and migrants to his Facebook account. Composite: Guardian Design View image in fullscreen One Nation branch official John Drew has repeatedly posted deeply offensive and racist language about Aboriginal people and migrants to his Facebook account. Composite: Guardian Design One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts Exclusive: Aboriginal Australians and migrants the targets of John Drew, who claims he was once kicked out of Pauline Hanson’s party for being ‘too radical’ – but is now a branch official Warning: This article contains racially offensive language and outdated references Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A man who has defended the Hitler Youth organisation and used offensive and racist language about Aboriginal people and migrants is working as a policy development officer for One Nation in Queensland . Guardian Australia can reveal that John Drew, who claims he was kicked out of One Nation more than 20 years ago for being “too radical”, says he has been a party branch official in Brisbane since late last year. This is despite One Nation claiming it has introduced a sophisticated new vetting tool – dubbed Operation Obsidian – that it applies to any person taking up a party role. One Nation’s ‘incredibly sloppy’ financial reports reveal more than $1m in missing or worthless assets Read more On Monday Drew confirmed to Guardian Australia that he holds the role of “policy development officer” with the Ryan branch in Brisbane . He would not say whether he had been elected or appointed to the position. Drew was previously the Queensland secretary for the far-right Australia First party and national coordinator for the Patriotic Youth League, which was active in the early 2000s and had links to a US neo-Nazi organisation. His Facebook account shows that he has repeatedly used deeply offensive and racist language about Aboriginal people, calling them “rapacious bludgers and grifters”, “ghastly boongs” and “stone age people”. In one post he said: “It has been estimated that at least fifty percent of aborigines are mentally ill.” In another post about the campaign for an Indigenous voice to parliament, he called the Olympian Cathy Freeman an “aboriginal flog” and claimed that “country people have had enough of rapacious aborigines”. View image in fullscreen A 2007 profile of John Drew in Zoo Weekly Drew posted in 2022 that he was writing a film script based on historical events on North Stradbroke Island in which soldiers fought “the vile savages causing problems”. “It will be an action movie which shows aborigines being shot and killed,” he wrote. Dozens of other deeply offensive posts are found on Drew’s Facebook page. It claims he is a “radical activist with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation” and in March he said he was “proud to be a One Na