Lucy Zelić says she’s been left alarmed and disturbed by what is taking place at Australia’s universities.

Her comments come as students prepare to walk out of classes to protest against the rise of Pauline Hanson.

“There’s this kind of revolution with respect to socialism. As I said, go and look at the countries that tried and failed this … Spare me this kind of populist rise of the Democratic Socialists in the US …. these are radical-left lunatics,” she told Clinton Maynard.

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