How media attacks and establishment sneering are fuelling One Nation’s resurgence

How media attacks and establishment sneering are fuelling One Nation’s resurgence. By Chris Mitchell in The Australian.

This column reckons much of the activist media class misunderstands One Nation supporters.

People moving to One Nation know exactly what they do and don’t want.

Like populist movements in the US and the UK, they are part of a backlash against the censorious sneering of the political establishment, freed by Donald Trump’s rejection of woke pieties on immigration, gender and climate.

In Australia, they may not approve of Trump’s handling of world affairs, but they feel they can now speak openly against foolish ideology in favour of common sense.

Journalists Sarah Ferguson on the ABC’s 7.30 on Wednesday and Sally Sara on Radio National breakfast on Thursday railed against Hanson’s words on radical Islam, multiculturalism, speaking English at home, criticism of late-term abortion and support for biological truth over gender ideology.

The pair is only helping One Nation — just as surely as GetUp!’s stunt of unfurling an anti-Hanson poster in the middle of her speech at the National Press Club in Canberra helped her. …

Hanson admitted her party would need to face media scrutiny as its support grew. But scrutiny is not the same as adversarial political activism by reporters. …

The left cannot talk about it:

Despite all the cogent economic analysis from pollsters and political editors about the effects of the cost-of-living crisis on working class Australians, it’s clear the real spurt to Hanson’s political fortunes was the murder of 15 people at Bondi Beach in December during a celebration of Hanukkah.

Whose fault, politically?

The massacre makes up the entire first part of the new One Nation ad, and it’s powerful. The implication is clear — this attack is the fruit of multiculturalism and high migration.

 

 

Australians, Hanson said, should be able to discuss radical Islamism. Yet such discussions are seldom had openly, even though they have been in Europe for more than a decade.

The instructions to the left:

ABC global affairs editor Laura Tingle on December 16 told her colleague Patricia Karvelas on the Politics Now podcast that the actions of the Bondi gunmen had “nothing to do with religion”. …

Reality:

Months earlier ASIO boss Mike Burgess had warned that the war in Gaza was firing up Muslim anger online, especially among young males.

Many journalists have tried to deny the link between high immigration, high house prices and housing shortages. Common sense tells voters the link is obvious. …

Scrutiny is fair. Finger-pointing accusations of racism not so much.

Alexandra Marshall isn’t debating anymore.

UPDATE: Radical Islam imported into Australia all in the name of votes:

Who is responsible?

Rod Lampard:

Being able to buy Chinese for dinner or a kebab for lunch isn’t multiculturalism.

The denial of the right to criticise any culture other than White, Anglo/Celtic European Western civ is.

Forced speech that demands we cower in fear of being called a racist if we point out that “all cultures are NOT equal” is.

Caldron Pool:

What are they here for?

Our culture? Our religion? Our laws? Our customs? Our way of life?

Check out all the Australian flags.

hat-tip Stephen Neil