NSW Opposition Leader Michael Daley has been accused of racism after he was filmed saying Asian immigrants were 'taking the jobs' of young Australian workers.
The video, filmed last year, has emerged just days out from the state election and as debate rages over the country's stance on immigration.
The footage shows comments made in September last year during a Politics in the Pub session in Wentworth Falls, in the Blue Mountains.
Mr Daley stunned members of the audience when he spoke of the 'transformation' that was happening in Sydney with 'foreigners moving in taking jobs'.
Mr Daley stunned members of the audience when he spoke of the 'transformation' that was happening in Sydney with 'foreigners moving in taking jobs'
'Our young children will flee and who are they being replaced with? They are being replaced by young people from typically Asia with PhDs,' Mr Daley said in the video.
'So there's a transformation happening in Sydney now where our kids are moving out and foreigners are moving in and taking their jobs.'
When a man in the audience expressed his concern over Mr Daley's comments he went on to explain it was a statement of fact that young people were moving out of Sydney because they could not afford to afford to live there.
He said they were being replaced by international workers, mainly from Asia.
'It's not a bad thing because Asian kids are coming to work here, it's a bad thing because I'd like my daughter to be living in Maroubra rather than St Kilda,' he said.
NSW Labor leader Michael Daley (pictured with daughter Olivia, wife Christina and son Austin) has been recorded saying Asian immigrants were taking jobs from young Australians in extraordinary comments caught on camera
Two months after the video was filmed, Mr Daley spoke at Chinese-only press conference, where his sentiments were vastly different.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has slammed Mr Daley, labelling
