In next weeks council elections some candidates for the Sutherland Shire will be running campaigns aimed at attracting the xenophobic vote.

Candidates, like the Australia First Party, have been running an anti immigration platform and say the southern Sydney region should remain predominantly white.

Another candidate, Darrin Hodges, has been linking high-rise developments with an influx of Asian immigrants.

The Sutherland Shire has a history of racial tension with violence in 2005 at Cronulla.

Independent candidate Darrin Hodges, holds the view that Australia has become ‘too’ multicultural and says we need to re-assess our position as a white Country.

2ser’s Paige Nguyen reports.