An independent federal election candidate has been caught on camera launching a shocking racist rant against two Nigerian men.
The video shows former One Nation candidate Teresa van Lieshout shouting at two men in the street in Melbourne on Wednesday.
The independent candidate for Cooper in north Melbourne can be heard yelling 'foreigners are brought here for votes so that Australian-born citizens can be murdered.'
In the video, the woman apparently claims that Liberal and Labor immigration policies are leading to Australian people being murdered
Rikefe Ohwofi decided to film after van Lieshout bumped into him and his friend while they were walking to dinner.
In the video, she apparently claims that Liberal and Labor immigration policies are leading to Australian people being murdered.
'Are you a Christian? Because I'm an Australian-born teacher and I'm in the federal election,' she says.
'You have to respect me, because I was born here and I'm a teacher.
'What country are you from? I don't go to your country and destroy your rights, what do you say about that?' Ms van Lieshout,a devout Christian, rants.
'You're here to vote for Liberal or Labor so we can be murdered. Foreigners are brought here for votes so that Australian-born citizens can be murdered.
'I'm going to go to your country and destroy all your people's rights and make you all unemployed, and homeless and drugged. How would you like that? That's what those politicians are doing to my people.'
At that point a woman steps into defend the men, calling the woman racist.
Ms van Lieshout replies: 'We're being murdered lady. The same politicians killed the Aboriginal people, they killed the Aboriginal people. I'm in the federal election.'
When contacted by Daily Mail Australia, Ms van
