Today’s media lie about Pauline Hanson concerns domestic violence. By One News.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson spent Wednesday being wrongly accused of victim blaming by Brittany Higgins, Finance Minister and Minister for Women Katy Gallagher and Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek, all over one answer in a wide ranging 4BC interview.
Hanson called domestic violence “wrong” the moment she was asked, called it “a scourge”, called it “absolutely wrong” when host Gary Hardgrave pressed her about men killing women, and told victims to leave because she once had to leave herself. And to no surprise, none of that survived into the coverage.
What did survive was this:
“It is wrong but it’s also a two way street. I’m not saying that it’s just men, women can lose their cool as well.”
And this:
“If these women are getting abused by men out there, then don’t put up with it. That’s what I am saying.”
Higgins, now executive director of the anti One Nation Vida Fund, and declared bankrupt three years after her $2.4 million Commonwealth payout [which was predicated on her never being abler to work in her profession again], said in a social media statement, as reported by Nine, that “normalising this victim blaming rhetoric in relation to domestic violence when 38 Australian women have already been lost to femicide is atrocious”….
This is the same Brittany Higgins a 360 page WA Supreme Court judgment found had made 26 false or misleading statements in media interviews, who apologised to Linda Reynolds and was bankrupted by the costs, and who’s now employed as the public face of a campaign built to stop Hanson’s party….
Barnaby Joyce:
The exchange didn’t come from nowhere. Hardgrave had just played Hanson a clip of Barnaby Joyce, who’d told 4BC’s Jason Matthews earlier that same morning that men should walk out of the house before they lose their temper and keep it together like James Bond, who is “loved in the cinemas because he keeps it all together”. Joyce copped his own backlash for that within hours. …
What Hanson said, and why:
Wednesday’s interviews put both halves on the table: Joyce told men to walk out and cool down, Hanson told victims not to put up with it and called for somewhere real to go. P…
Hanson didn’t lecture women from a safe distance. She told them what she did herself. …
Hanson speaks as a woman who fled a violent home. Gallagher and Plibersek spoke through ministerial media statements. Only one of those is lived experience. …
In her autobiography she wrote of a marriage that soured with the ill treatment of her sons and years of alcohol fuelled violence, and after her then husband put his fist through a wall she left, working low paid jobs to keep four children fed. …
In 2019 she secured a Senate inquiry into the family court system after telling the ABC that some litigants were “nothing but liars” who used violence orders to keep fathers from their children. Women’s groups warned the inquiry would become a platform for men’s rights activists. …
Her position then is her position now: the system exists to protect victims, both sexes can be victims, and both sexes can work the system. On Wednesday she added the part her critics keep cutting. It’s wrong, all of it.
The suppressed truth:
The line that drew the most fire was “I’m not saying that it’s just men”. It happens to be what the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports, across every kind of abuse it counts. For emotional abuse the figures are 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men. For economic abuse, 1 in 6 women and 1 in 13 men. Abuse doesn’t have to leave a bruise to wreck a life, and the institute counts the mental and financial kinds for exactly that reason.
“1 in 6 women and 1 in 18 men have experienced physical or sexual violence from a cohabiting partner since the age of 15.”
Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, national family, domestic and sexual violence summary, cohabiting partners since age 15. …
Of the 98 domestic homicide victims recorded in 2024 to 2025, 32 women and 14 men were killed by an intimate partner.
The same summary reports that 2 in 5 male victims of partner violence never sought advice or support afterwards. On Wednesday those men learned that a senator acknowledging their existence counts as a dangerous message.
None of this disputes that the violence is gendered. University of Technology Sydney associate professor Jane Wangmann told Nine that most domestic and family violence is perpetrated by men against women, and the AIHW tables agree. So did Hanson, on the tape, when Hardgrave put the death toll to her. Recognising male victims and condemning male violence aren’t competing positions.
Conclusion:
Step back from the pile on and look at the shape of it. A survivor said abuse runs in both directions and that victims should get out. For that, she was branded a victim blamer by a movement that claims to speak for victims, despite Hanson being a victim herself. The test was never what she said. It was who said it, and about whom.
Male victims fail the same eligibility test. They’re 1 in 7 of the emotionally abused and 14 of the year’s intimate partner homicide victims, and no minister issued a statement about the dangerous message their invisibility sends. Anyone who has lived near domestic violence knows it can run both ways inside the same house, verbal and mental as well as physical, long before anything reaches a police report. Saying that out loud isn’t victim blaming. It’s the precondition for protecting everyone involved.
The feminists and their media toadies will not admit that men can be victims of female violence. They suppress that information and agitate for more resources for women. Despite 80% of the victims of violence today being male (across all categories, not just domestic violence, and noting that 90% of the perpetrators are male), it’s always “stop violence again women.” No bigotry there, eh?