Australia's most divisive right-wing politician, Fraser Anning, has denied claims his family boasted about enslaving young Aboriginal children on their North Queensland cattle property.
'Catchem young' was the phrase allegedly used by Senator Anning's great-grandfather in an unpublished memoir detailing how Aboriginal children would be captured and forced to work on the family's Reedy Springs cattle station near Richmond.
Another ancestor of Senator Anning reportedly 'hunted blacks' during the early years of white settlement in the region.
The alleged racist past of the Anning family emerged as the Senator was censured by Federal Parliament on Wednesday over 'pathetic and shameful' remarks, in which he blamed the Christchurch massacre committed by a white supremacist on high levels of Muslim immigration.
Senator Anning told Daily Mail Australia the claims about his family were 'nonsense', and while acknowledging they had been printed in history books, he said: 'At no time did any of my ancestors force anyone to come on to their properties - the opposite is actually a fact'.
He also said there was 'no way' they would have attacked Indigenous Australians.
The former One Nation senator became a poster child for right-wing groups since referring to the 'final solution' – a term used in Nazi Germany to describe the extermination of Jews - in his maiden speech to Parliament in 2018.
Senator Anning used the term while calling for an end to Muslim immigration to Australia.
Fraser Anning, pictured on Instagram in front of the cattle property where he grew up, has denied claims his ancestors 'hunted blacks' and captured Aboriginal children to use as free labour during their time as pastoralists in northern Queensland
Pictured: Fraser Anning's father Bill (left) with his aunt Mary (centre) sit with grandfather Harry
William Connolly, 17, smashed a raw egg on the back of Senator Anning's head in response to his inflammatory remarks about the Christchurch shooting
Following his inflammatory Christchurch remarks, Senator Anning had a raw egg cracked over the back of his head by William Connolly, 17. He retaliated by turning and hitting the boy twice.
Senator Anning has consistently denied accusations he is a racist and doubled down ahead of his censure motion in Parliament on the need to stop 'sinister' Muslim immigration to Australia, which he blames for increasing violence and terrorism.
'What is really being censured here is not me, it is the right of anyone to say something that those in power disagree with,' he said.
Senator Anning is proud of his family's cattle farming history, and a picture from his Instagram page shows him happily posing in front of the property he grew up on at Wetherby, near Richmond.
The Anning family took over a large section of farming land in north-west Queensland when they settled in Australia in 1861. They went on to own multiple cattle stations.
But Senator Anning's happy snap from the front gate of his family farm may hide an ugly ancestral past, according to historians.
A history book published in 1982, which focused on white settlement in the late 1800s, claims the Anning family would take young Indigenous people from their families and force them to work on their cattle station.
Invasion and resistance, by historian Noel Loos, refers to excerpts of an unpublished memoir by Senator Anning's great-uncle Richard Anning, collated in a book titled: 'Sun on the Right'.
In the memoir, Richard described how his father, Frank (Fraser's great-grandfather) had captured a young boy to work on his station at Reedy Springs, using the phrase: 'catchem young' in his explanation of events.
The 69-year-old has been seen affiliating with right-wing extremists like Blair Cottrell (pictured right), and enjoys a huge wave of support from people who subscribe to far-right politics
After settling in Australia in 1861, Anning's family took over a great deal of land in northern Queensland, which they developed into multiple cattle stations. Anning grew up at Wetherby Station (pictured)
A history book alleges Senator Anning's ancestors 'hunted' Indigenous people and captured young Indigenous people so they would work on the family cattle stations, but the Queensland politician has firmly denied this ever happened (pictured: stock image of an Indigenous family in Queensland)
Another relative of the Queensland senator is accused of attacking Indigenous people nearby his cattle station, with explorer and pastoralist Frank Hann writing in his memoirs in 1874 he met John Anning who had 'just come back from hunting blacks'.
Excerpts from the memoirs were published in Aboriginal Family and the State, written by Sally Babidge, in 2010.
Senator Anning told Daily Mail Australia there were no fights between the Anning family and local Indigenous people, and his ancestors worked hard to ensure a high standard of living for those in their employ.
'I was lucky enough to know my grandfather [Harry] - he was still alive at 93,' he said.
'When I was 22 or 23, I spoke at length to him about his life in the early days. I questioned him about wars with the Aboriginies, and he said that may have been the case in some other areas, but he was busy trying to run a cattle farm.'
The former hotelier said there was no way his ancestors could have been 'hunting blacks', because they were simply too busy.
'When you're trying to run a thousand mile place with little help, you don't have time to go out hunting anyway - I'm not sure if it's happened, but it certainly never happened in our family,' he said.
The Queensland Senator is regularly criticised for his hard-right views, and espouses conservative beliefs regarding topics like abortion (pictured is a flyer for his political party, Fraser Anning's Conservative Nationals)
'In the conversations I had with my grandfather, he just laughed at
