Pauline Hanson goes to war with Labor, Islam and trans agenda. By Greg Brown in The Australian.
Pauline Hanson … [pledged] massive cuts to government spending while ending the “transgender insurgency” and Islamic fundamentalism in Australia. …
Senator Hanson vowed to abandon multiculturalism and ban migration from some Muslim countries, under an immigration policy that would include big cuts to the numbers of visas issued whole restoring “national identity and Australian values”.
“Under the failed policy of multiculturalism, all cultures are allowed equivalence to ours,” Senator Hanson said. “Surely opposing that is not racist, it’s common sense. We cannot be a multicultural society. We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural.” …
Senator Hanson … [vowed] to take a heavy-handed approach to the regulation of artificial intelligence, overhaul the tax and industrial relations systems, abolish the SBS, end free ABC in the cities, audit spending in the childcare sector and dismantle all spending on climate change programs. …
Despite vowing to slash government spending to provide room for tax cuts, Senator Hanson said the government’s proposed NDIS reforms might cut off people who “really do need the help”. …
Arguing that Western civilisation and its values were under siege, she said Islamic hate preachers were a “social cancer”. …
Finally gets a go:
Senator Hanson[‘s] address was her first to the press club in a 30-year political career. …
Senator Hanson said she had not changed her views since first being elected to parliament in 1996 …
All the correct people hate her:
The One Nation leader, who attributed One Nation’s surging popularity to a public that was “sick and tired of being ignored”, drew immediate criticism from Labor, the Greens and regional allies for an incendiary address at the National Press Club. …
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the speech highlighted the fact Senator Hanson was offering “division and anger” with no answers, while Liberal frontbencher James McGrath said it amounted to a “series of grumbles and complaints”. …
Greens leader Larissa Waters labelled the speech as “incoherent hatred” that “offered nothing more than the same tired Islamophobia, transphobia, racism and protection racket for fossil fuels we’ve heard from her for decades”.